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oapen-20.500.12657-329892022-04-26T12:25:41Z Political Life Writing in the Pacific. Reflections on Practice Corbett, Jack V. Lal, Brij politics pacific life writing Autobiography Fiji Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public perception and ideology; identifying important political successes and policy initiatives; grappling with issues like corruption and age-old political science questions about leadership and ‘dirty hands’. These are general themes but they take on a particular significance in the Pacific context and so the contributions explore these themes in relation to patterns of colonisation and the memory of independence; issues elliptically captured by terms like ‘culture’ and ‘tradition’; the nature of ‘self’ presented in Pacific life writing; and the tendency for many of these texts to be written by ‘outsiders’, or at least the increasingly contested nature of what that term means. 2015-11-05 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:26:03Z 2020-04-01T14:26:03Z 2015 book 578871 OCN: 945783083 9781925022605 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32989 eng application/pdf n/a 578871.pdf http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/state-society-and-governance-in-melanesia/political-life-writing-in-the-pacific/ ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_578871 10.26530/OAPEN_578871 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781925022605 open access
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This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public perception and ideology; identifying important political successes and policy initiatives; grappling with issues like corruption and age-old political science questions about leadership and ‘dirty hands’. These are general themes but they take on a particular significance in the Pacific context and so the contributions explore these themes in relation to patterns of colonisation and the memory of independence; issues elliptically captured by terms like ‘culture’ and ‘tradition’; the nature of ‘self’ presented in Pacific life writing; and the tendency for many of these texts to be written by ‘outsiders’, or at least the increasingly contested nature of what that term means.
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