Kunapipi Volume 27 Issue 2 Article 1 2005 Kunapipi 27(2) 2005 Full version Anne Collett University of Wollongong, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Collett, Anne, Kunapipi 27(2) 2005 Full version, Kunapipi, 27(2), 2005. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol27/iss2/1 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Kunapipi 27(2) 2005 Full version Abstract Full text of issue. This full issue is available in Kunapipi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol27/iss2/1 KUNAPIPI Journal of Postcolonial Writing VOLUME XXVII NUMBER 2 2005 ii Kunapipi is a bi-annual arts magazine with special but not exclusive emphasis on the new literatures written in English. It aims to fulfil the requirements T.S. Eliot believed a journal should have: to introduce the work of new or little known writers of talent, to provide critical evaluation of the work of living authors, both famous and unknown, and to be truly international. It publishes creative material and criticism. Articles and reviews on related historical and sociological topics plus film will also be included as well as graphics and photographs. The editor invites creative and scholarly contributions. The editorial board does not necessarily endorse any political views expressed by its contributors. Manuscripts should be double-spaced with notes gathered at the end, and should conform to the Harvard (author-date) system. Wherever possible the submission should be on disc (soft-ware preferably Microsoft Word) and should be accompanied by a hard copy. Please include a short biography, address and email contact if available. 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ISSN 0106-5734 iii Kunapipi VOLUME XXVII NUMBER 2 Editor ANNE COLLETT Sub-Editor GREG RATCLIFFE Editorial Advisors DIANA BRYDON, LEE THUAN CHYE, DIANA WOOD CONROY, MARGARET DAYMOND, HELEN GILBERT, GARETH GRIFFITHS, ALAMGIR HASHMI, ARITHA VAN HERK, JANIS JEFFRIES, ALAN LAWSON, RUSSELL MCDOUGALL, HENA MAES-JELINEK, GANESH MISHRA, ALASTAIR NIVEN, KIRSTEN HOLST PERTERSEN, CHRIS PRENTICE, BRUCE CLUNIES ROSS, PAUL SHARRAD, KIRPAL SINGH, ANGELA SMITH, HELEN TIFFIN, GERRY TURCOTTE, JAMES WIELAND, MARK WILLIAMS Production GREG RATCLIFFE iv Five Year Subscriptions Tribute to Anna Sonja Bahn Isabel Carrera Jeanne Delbaere Helen Gilbert Zeny Giles Gareth Griffiths Bernard Hickey Dorothy Jones Paul Love Russell McDougall Hena Maes-Jelinek Jamie Scott Paul Sharrad Jennifer Strauss Chris Tiffin Helen Tiffin Adi Wimmer Acknowledgements Kunapipi is published with assistance from the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies and the European branch of the Association and the Facuty of Arts University of Wollongong. EACLALS European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies We wish to thank: Text Publishing for permission to print the extract from Célestine Hitiura Vaite’s forthcoming novel, Tiare: The Husband Who Didn’t Deserve His Wife and Everything That Happened After That; Éditions Grain de Sable for permission to reproduce Isabelle Goulou’s illustrations from L’enfant Kaori; Deborah Carlyon and University of Queensland Press for permission to reproduce the drawings from MamaKuma; Biliso Osake for permission to reproduce his cartoon; Ani O’Neill, Niki Hastings-McFall, Filip Tohu, John Pule, Fata Feu’u for permission to reproduce images of their work; and Eric Aubry for permission to reproduce the photograph of Déwé Gorodé. Front Cover: Dancers in the Kaul 1 SingSing Group from Karkar Island, Madang district, PNG, wearing bilum typical of this region as part of their dance constume performance at the Goroka Show, 1994. (Photograph: Susan Cochrane) Kunapipi refers to the Australian Aboriginal myth of the Rainbow Serpent which is the symbol of both creativity and regeneration. The journal’s emblem is to be found on an Aboriginal shield from the Roper River area of the Northern Territory of Australia. v Contents Editorial, Anne Collett vii ESSAYS Dominique Jouve, Lia Bryant,Judith Gill & Deidre Tedmanson, 9 “If I Don’t Speak to My Child in My Own Language, Then Who Will?” Kanak Women Writing Culture for Children’ Raylene Ramsay, ‘Déwé Gorodé: The Paradoxes of Being a Kanak 23 Woman Writer’ Stéphanie Vigier & Raylene Ramsay, ‘Women Writers in New Caledonia’ 43 Karen Stevenson, ‘Threads of the Island, Threads of the Urban’ 63 Shayne Kearney, ‘The Power of the Pen: Solomon Islands Women Uniting 77 to Overcome Adversity through Writing’ Linda Crowl, ‘Carrying the Bag: Women Writers and Publishers in 92 the Pacific Islands’ Susan Cochrane, ‘Bilong Ol Meri (For All Women): The New Guinea 107 Bilum’ Steven Winduo, ‘Papua New Guinea Women Finding Paths through 131 Limitation’ Holly Walker, ‘Developing Difference: Attitudes towards Maori 215 “Development” in Patricia Grace’s, Potiki and Dogside Story’ Jo Diamond, ‘He Korari PuaWai: Postcolonial Raranga in Aotearoa 231 New Zealand and Australia’ Daphne Lawless, ‘“Craving for the Dirty Pah”: Half-Caste Heroines in 240 Late Colonial New Zealand Novels’ Sarah Ailwood, ‘Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Tensions of 255 Empire during the Modernist Period’ Jen Crawford, ‘Spaze: Void States and the Mother-Child Relationship in 268 The Matriarch, The Dream Swimmer, Cousins and Baby No-Eyes’ BIBLIOGRAPHY Stéphanie Vigier, ‘Women Writers in New Caledonia’ 53 FICTION Jane Downing, ‘The Tradition of Weaving’ 58 Mathilda Parau, ‘To Lean On’ 135 Anne Mathew, ‘Gara’ 139 Helen Setu, ‘A Test of Fate’ 143 Michelle Kopi, ‘Mother’s Child’ 150 Célestine Hitiura Vaite, ‘Pito’s Congratulation’ 197 Lani Young, ‘Don’t Tell’ 251 ‘Stillborn’ 276 vi POETRY Leah Moide, ‘Our Past’ 174 Melissa Aigilo, ‘Moral Intents’, ‘Kitchen Duty’ 175 Cresantia Frances Koya, ‘The Mothers of Wisdom’, ‘Untitled’, 201 ‘Free Fall in Love’, ‘Fools’ Gold’ Briar Wood, ‘Sea Wall’, ‘Kirikau’ 213 Konai Helu Thaman, ‘A Celebration of Peace’, ‘The Way Ahead’ 281 INTERVIEW Anne Collett, ‘“Why not a Woman!”: An Interview with Tahitian Writer, 177 Célestine Hitiura Vaite’ REVIEW ESSAYS Edward P. Wolfers, ‘Award-Winning Account of a Pioneering Papua New 119 Guinean Woman’s Life on the Frontiers of Change: MamaKuma by Deborah Carlyon’ ‘Pacific Women and Peace: Bougainville’s “Mothers of the Land”’ 156 Paul Sharrad, ‘Re-viewing Reviewing: Thoughts on Pacific Poetry 206 and Hybridity’ NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 284 vii EDITORIAL Not long ago I was asked to write one of those ‘history of the world in a thousand words’ entries for an encyclopaedia. In this particular case it was a ‘history of women in the South Pacific’ in two thousand words — a request that I declined at first, feeling that my qualifications were decidedly inadequate: I was a woman, I was an Australian, and I had published in the area of postcolonial women’s writing. When pushed hard enough however, I reluctantly agreed and embarked on an intensive research project whose outcome was not only the potted history, but also the discovery that information was scant and scattered, library holdings were generally pretty limited, and the most important sources were often people who knew people who could tell me this and lend me that. The exercise left me feeling frustrated but also stimulated: I wanted to know more. This special issue of Kunapipi is a very small part of that ‘more’. It has been a long (a covert apology for publication delay) and a fruitful (an overt congratulation to those who contributed) project. The ‘South Pacific’ is a lose term, chosen for convenience rather than anything more sophisticated (Linda Crowl’s essay includes an informative discussion of the term). For me as editor (with the not very postcolonial strains of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical in my head — ‘Bali Ha’i’ and ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ battling for supremacy) it served to limit the field (or rather ocean), with an emphasis on small island cultures (and hence the absence of Australia). After much searching, inquiring, pleading and harassing, I received contributions from and about, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tahiti, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tonga and Samoa. The issue grew beyond anything I had envisaged, and I would like particularly to thank Paul Sharrad for his knowledge and guidance — where to look, who to ask…. At one point I recall his suggestion to contact Konai Helu Thaman, to which I replied ‘Who?’. An eminent poet and scholar, her poems ‘A Celebration of Peace’ and ‘The Way Ahead’ bring the issue to a close with the promise or at least the possibility of a green future and the prospect of peace. It may be that this is wishful thinking, but if we have no vision of peace then we cannot work toward it.