Year
1995
Degree Name
Master of Arts (Hons.)
Department
Department of English
Recommended Citation
Semos, Maretta Kula, The work of Russell Soaba, Master of Arts (Hons.) thesis, Department of English, University of Wollongong, 1995. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/2205
Abstract
Russell Soaba is a major writer from Papua New Guinea whose work has been neglected because of its perceived 'difficulty'. This dissertation seeks to review this assessment in the light of postcolonial literary theory models of marginality. When Soaba's writing is seen in its historical and cultural context, his complexity can be explained as arising firstly from the modernisation of the artist's role under decolonisation in a still largely traditional-oral culture, and secondly, from a regional marginalisation within the emergent national frame that complicates the binary centre-margin structure of postcolonial theory.
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.