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Gutsini Posa (Rough seas) (review)

Gutsini Posa (Rough seas) (review) book reviews 551 tive struggle, even if at a cost. In the process of achieving reconciliation of the conflicting self between idealism and practice, Penagi must pass through a series of denials, sacrifices, and transformations. In some sense Stella’s extended metaphor is that literature too must be transformed from an ide- alist and trivial pursuit to one that is political in order to intervene in the national crisis and identity questions. Far from its existentialist value, Gutsini Posa is a novel that has two achievements: First, it is an important literary representation of the struggle of the Bougainville people to come to terms with a crisis that has completely devastated their moral and physical strength. The crippling condition of the society is a sadness that cannot be washed away by tears or with orga- nized guerrilla resistance, but with strategic negotiations. Rape, senseless *** killing, and torture are not confronta- tions but the wounds of conflict in Gutsini Posa (Rough seas), by Regis the lives of those who have to live Stella. Suva: Mana Publications, through crisis: “None of you know 1999. isbn 982-02-0145-4; 153 pages. how I feel, the anguish in my soul! Paper, us$15. Available from Institute http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Gutsini Posa (Rough seas) (review)

Winduo, Steven Edmund,
The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 12 (2) – Jul 1, 2001
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Abstract

book reviews 551 tive struggle, even if at a cost. In the process of achieving reconciliation of the conflicting self between idealism and practice, Penagi must pass through a series of denials, sacrifices, and transformations. In some sense Stella’s extended metaphor is that literature too must be transformed from an ide- alist and trivial pursuit to one that is political in order to intervene in the national crisis and identity questions. Far from its existentialist value, Gutsini Posa is a novel that has two achievements: First, it is an important literary representation of the struggle of the Bougainville people to come to terms with a crisis that has completely devastated their moral and physical strength. The crippling condition of the society is a sadness that cannot be washed away by tears or with orga- nized guerrilla resistance, but with strategic negotiations. Rape, senseless *** killing, and torture are not confronta- tions but the wounds of conflict in Gutsini Posa (Rough seas), by Regis the lives of those who have to live Stella. Suva: Mana Publications, through crisis: “None of you know 1999. isbn 982-02-0145-4; 153 pages. how I feel, the anguish in my soul! Paper, us$15. Available from Institute

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Published: Jul 1, 2001

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