Baining Fire Dancer I will present a public lecture as part of my responsibilities as the Arthur Lynn Andrews Chair in Pacific and Asian Studies. The public lecture is a collaboration between the English Department, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaii and the East West Center Pacific Islands Development Program. English Department Colloquium "Metonymic Function of Language and Cultural Truth in Pacific Writing," by Steven Winduo, University of Papua New Guinea and Arthur Lynn Andrews Chair in Pacific and Asian Studies at UH Mānoa. Thursday, 10 March 2011 3:00 pm UHM Kuykendall Hall, Room 410 Most literary texts in Oceania employ English as the main language of writing. The choice of English rather than the indigenous languages is preferred for a number of reasons, but with an "overlap" of language that occurs when texture, sound, rhythm, and words are carried over from the mother tongue to the
Chronicles the stories of education, books, writing, and reading in the life of Steven Edmund Winduo, PNG writer extraordinaire, literacy advocate, social literary activist, literary scholar, & teacher. Fern Ridge is a translation of Safla Rama, where home is for SEW.