In Print

Sandra Tawake's "Constructing the Present: Insider/Outsider Perspective in Fiction by Figiel, Pule, and Ihimaera" was published in SPAN Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (50-51) April & October 2001. According to Tawake, Samoan writer Sia Figel, Niuean writer John Pule, and Maori writer Witi Ihimaera are representative of how creative writing in the Pacific has gone through several phases that parallel the development of creative writing in English from other former British colonies: such as India, Africa, Singapore, the English speaking countries in the West Indies, Belize in Central America and the Pacific island nations -- Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, and Cook Islands.  "The earliest of the literature from most of these former colonies was written by outsiders, ex-patriates who travelled abroad and wrote about what they encountered from an outsider point of view, such as Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Pierre Loti, and Somerset Maugham," Tawake writes. "Most of that early writing set in former colonies is often referred to as 'outsider' writing.  The first wave of writing by 'insiders,' i.e. those who grew up in the Pacific and whose first language was usually that of the indigenous people where they were living, was welcomed and hailed as 'post colonial' and other praise words to distinguish it from the Eurocentric writing by those who only visited the Pacific or India or Samoa." 

"Building Connections between Industry and University: Implementing an Internship Program at a Regional University," by Janice Tovey appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly 10 (2001): 225-39. This article discusses the issues of socialization and acculturation of interns into the workplace, motivation of student employees, and the relationships between education, the workplace, and the academy. Evaluations by students and their field supervisors from an established university level internship program reveal the significance of these issues for positive experiential learning.

She: Belizean Women Poets edited by Gay Wilentz  has been published by Image Factory Books (2001) in Belize. International Studies graduate students Jenny Vickers and Gena Max (both former ECU English undergrads) and graduate students Amy MacAdam, Colena Gardner, Ingrid Vernon assisted in compiling this anthology. In addition, Ingrid Vernon contributed two poems to the collection: "I Stand Corrected" and "Spirits Inflamed." This volume resulted from efforts during "A Trip to Belize."

Peter Makuck's review "Ambition, Intrigue, and 19th Century Paris" of Paul Lafarge's new novel Haussmann, or the Distinction (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001) was printed in the Sept. 30th issue of The News and Observer. "Countless writers have made effective use of the framed narrative," Makuck writes. "Hawthorne, Hesse and Nabokov immediately come to mind, but no novelist has taken the frame as far as Paul Lafarge in Haussmann, or the Distinction -- a distinctive novel with an off-putting title. Typical of this device, say, is the yellowed manuscript found in an old trunk, then prefaced by the finder and delivered to a publisher. Lafarge tells us in his preface that he came upon the long-forgotten novel we will soon read (in his translation) while doing research at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. But he oils this creaky device and helps the gimmick toward greater realism with a period photo of a Parisian lamplighter, a facsimile title page of the discovered roman in question, and an afterward that features daguerreotypes pretending to portray the fictional novelist, Paul Poissel,and the mysterious Yvonne Dutronc."