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oapen-20.500.12657-335472021-11-08T10:17:40Z Turnings Fiji Factions V. Lal, Brij biography political biography fiji Australia Hindi Indo-Fijians Labasa Sita Suva bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania & other land areas::1MK Oceania::1MKL Melanesia::1MKLF Fiji bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general::BGH Biography: historical, political & military Through Dr Lal’s refreshingly clear and powerful prose and sharply observed stories, we enter the inner world of Indo-Fijian feeling and aspiration. One universal that emerges with particular clarity in the Indo-Fijian experience is the ceaseless struggle to find community in a changing world, balancing the beauty of ritual and tradition against the transcendent value of education and modern rationality. The volume poses the question of how people draw upon historical memory and immediate circumstances to create a social world, and how that world can be shared with others in multicultural society. The answer seems to lie somewhere between history and poetry, as in Dr Lal’s ‘factions.’ Andrew Arno University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu 2013-11-20 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:50:22Z 2020-04-01T14:50:22Z 2013 book 459935 OCN: 828647442 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33547 eng application/pdf n/a 459935.pdf http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/turnings ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_459935 10.26530/OAPEN_459935 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 Canberra open access
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Through Dr Lal’s refreshingly clear and powerful prose and sharply observed stories, we enter the inner world of Indo-Fijian feeling and aspiration. One universal that emerges with particular clarity in the Indo-Fijian experience is the ceaseless struggle to find community in a changing world, balancing the beauty of ritual and tradition against the transcendent value of education and modern rationality. The volume poses the question of how people draw upon historical memory and immediate circumstances to create a social world, and how that world can be shared with others in multicultural society. The answer seems to lie somewhere between history and poetry, as in Dr Lal’s ‘factions.’ Andrew Arno
University of Hawaii
at Manoa, Honolulu
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