Series[UMA-SRE-20140044] EARLY YEARS ACADEMIC, PERFORMANCE, WRITING AND PERSONAL PAPERSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEPart of Item[2014.0044.00049] Ethiopia (b)IdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004400264Scope and ContentColour road map of Ethiopia, 92cm x 90cm, printed by Ethiopian Mapping Agency 1984. Prepared in Cooperation with Ethiopian Transport Construction Authority (E.T.C.A.) Planning and Programming Division. The map is hand-annotated by Germaine Greer in pen and pink felt tip and marked with coffee rings and fragments of text in the Ethiopian. The markings trace the route taken by Greer as she followed a Relief and Rehabilitation Commission resettlement convoy across the country. Research notes and observations are written on the map's border. The map, re-housed in a Mylar sleave, was contained in Ethiopia (b) a folder of ephemera relating to Greer's work in Ethiopia as a journalist and her ongoing research and engagement with that country. Greer first went to Ethiopia in December 1984. She returned in April 1985, on assignment for The Observer and to scope out a documentary for Diverse Productions, and made a third trip in September 1985 to film Diverse Reports: Ethiopia. Relates to: 2014.0044.00049. The journey traced by this map resulted in 'Resettlement, Ethiopia 1985' an essay that was meant for The Observer but never published. It eventually appeared in The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings 1968-1985 (Picador, 1986). Subjects: Subjects: Famines--Ethiopia; Journalism.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0044 Unit 0004MenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
