Turnings : Fiji factions / Brij V. Lal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lal, Brij V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indians--Fiji--Social life and customs.

East Indians.

Fiji--Fiction.

Fiji.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : digital, PDF files(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2013

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Road to Mr Tulsi's Store

The Dux of Nasinu

Marriage

Masterji

Across the Fence

A Gap in the Hedge

In Mr Tom's Country

A Change of Seasons

An Australian Fusion

One Life, Three Worlds.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781922144911

1922144916

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459935