Read Loulay’s amazing experience of visiting her grandfather in Lebanon and how this memory was triggered by Lisa Bellear’s “Urbanised Reebocks Loulay- https://loulayslovelyliterature.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/my-grandfathers-imprisonment-by-the-frenchlanguage/ Read Anaïs’ passionate response to the racism of the taxi drive in Lisa Bellear’s taxi poem Anaïs Woods: https://anaiswoods.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/facing-the-denial-and-acts-of-racism-taxi-by-lisa-bellear-week-3-blog/ Read Chloe’s powerful entry on Romaine’s Genocide poem with a real understanding of…
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Class given to African American Clemente Students In the Centre of Harlem
What a gift this was to be to share my insights on and understanding of Australian Indigenous literature with this passionate, switched-on group of Harlem Clemente students. They were so keen to hear and know about their less well -off brothers and sisters down-under. I shared with them the way that our university supports Indigenous…
Oz Lit Week 3: Writing by and about Indigenous authors.
What a treat this week to hear so much about the indigenous experience. Starting with Bennelong, Watkin Tench and Eleanor Dark’s fictionalisation of these characters we learnt of the tenuous attempts of two radically different societies to get to know one another. Tench emphasises the “gentleness and humanity” of the natives, and this is something…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Autumn 2022 
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