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Caribbean identity in Australia — with Maxine Beneba Clarke and Sienna Brown
Manage episode 436821931 series 2456057
The connections between the Caribbean and Australia go back to white settlement, with deep links to the slave trade and British colonialism. What does it mean to be a writer of Caribbean descent in modern Australia? And how can the act of writing and storytelling enable a new sense of belonging and home?
This event was recorded at the Callaloo and Wattleseed Symposium at the University of Western Sydney on 3 May 2924.
Speakers
Maxine Beneba Clarke Author, The Hate Race, Foreign Soil, poetry books Carrying The World, How Decent Folk Behave, and children's books including When We Say Black Lives Matter, Wide Big World and moreInaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence, University of Melbourne
Sienna Brown Author, Master of My Fate
Further information:
Caribbean Convicts in Australia (podcast)The History Listen - ABC Radio National
271 episodes
Manage episode 436821931 series 2456057
The connections between the Caribbean and Australia go back to white settlement, with deep links to the slave trade and British colonialism. What does it mean to be a writer of Caribbean descent in modern Australia? And how can the act of writing and storytelling enable a new sense of belonging and home?
This event was recorded at the Callaloo and Wattleseed Symposium at the University of Western Sydney on 3 May 2924.
Speakers
Maxine Beneba Clarke Author, The Hate Race, Foreign Soil, poetry books Carrying The World, How Decent Folk Behave, and children's books including When We Say Black Lives Matter, Wide Big World and moreInaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence, University of Melbourne
Sienna Brown Author, Master of My Fate
Further information:
Caribbean Convicts in Australia (podcast)The History Listen - ABC Radio National
271 episodes
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