Migrant literature & writers

‘This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert ‘translations’ of difference’ that facilitate the entry of the Other story through the gate.
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Diasporic approaches have been mobilised in the past decade to provide a more complex understanding of the history of the Italian nation and of its many migrations (see, for instance, Donna Gabaccia’s Italy Many Diasporas, 2000). Gaetano Rando and…

This article discusses the book Lalomanu, a selection of poetry by Spanish-Australian writer, Jorge Salavert, written in response to the death of his daughter Clea in the tsumani that struck Samoa just after dawn on 29 September 2009. Salavert’s…

An overview of recent poetry and prose of Asian-Australian writers as they perform an artistic ‘about-face’ to reflect on racialised depictions of minority ethnicities.

What is the speaker doing, wandering in a patch of remnant coastal bush close to a large new shopping centre? And what does he mean by that final statement/ realisation, that 'in this place/[I'm] talking with Yagan's head.'?1 What I'd…