Rascal rain: a year in Papua New Guinea, 1991-1993

Containers:

Box 12-14 (MS 8269)

Component identifier:

Series 8

Content Summary:

In 1992, Baranay took up a posting with Australian Volunteers Abroad to work as Executive Officer of the Enga Provincial Women's Council at Wabag in Papua New Guinea. This series contains her papers from that year, including circulars and correspondence with Australian Volunteers Abroad; her papers and reports from Wabag; copies of approximately 90 letters to friends (February and August 1992); diary entries; articles on Papua New Guinea, feminism and postcolonialism; and cuttings on Papua New Guinea and Enga Province.

The series also contains three typescripts (one photocopied) annotated with amendments, of which the last includes a covering letter to Anne Lawson of Harper Collins dated November 1993. Also held is the transcript of an interview with Baranay, recorded in Wewak on 19 March 1992.

Names:

Baranay, Inez, Ms.

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