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Destabilising Notions of the Unfamiliar in Australian Documentary Theatre: version 1.0’s CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident)
This article offers a fresh analysis of Sydney-based version 1.0’s theatre production CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident, 2004), which engaged with asylum seekers arriving by boat in the context of the so-called ‘children overboard affair’ and the maritime disaster, in which over 300 people from the SIEV X, a brittle Indonesian fishing boat, perished. The performance invited audiences to see the unfamiliar in themselves rather than in those frequently rejected as ‘the other’. In doing so, it questioned common notions of the unfamiliar that is perceived by audiences as different, foreign or insufficiently known, and interrupted a long tradition of opposing the familiar culture(s) of Australians and the unfamiliar culture(s) of the ‘boat people’. The article explores how version 1.0 used effectively a destabilisation of meaning, a playful inversion of socio-political responsibilities and challenged common notions of the roles of fact and fiction in order to offer an alternative perspective on public events, thus making an important contribution to Australia’s communicative memory of issues that continue to be pertinent beyond Australian borders.
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The cage
In the back garden of a quiet country hotel, two men are kept locked in a cage. Two mysterious strangers appear at a hotel in a small country town. There have they come from? Who are they? What catastrophe are they fleeing? The townspeople want answers, but the strangers are unable to speak of their trauma. And before long, wary hospitality shifts to suspicion and fear, and the care of the men slides into appalling cruelty. Lloyd Jones's fable-like novel The Cage is a profound and unsettling novel about humanity and dignity and the ease with which we're able to justify brutality.
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“Authentic Masks”: Narrating Jewish Refugee Transit to the Caribbean in Felicia Rosshandler’s Passing Through Havana
The flight of Holocaust refugees to the Caribbean has become a new focal point of historical scholarship. Less attention has been devoted, however, to literary representations of these journeys. Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe feature prominently, for example, in Jamaican novelist John Hearne’s Land of the Living (1961) and Antiguan novelist Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter (2002). More recently, Haitian author Louis Philippe Dalembert’s novel Avant que les ombres s’effacent (2017) addresses refugee journeys to Haiti that remain largely unexplored in historical scholarship. Moreover, Jewish refugees have also written fiction and poetry inspired by their experiences of flight to the Caribbean. Such works reveal the refugees’ complex responses to the colonial environments in which they found themselves. These texts suggest how the refugees’ understanding of colonial racism was informed by their own experiences of persecution while also being shaped by European colonialist discourses and preconceptions. A case in point is Felicia Rosshandler’s autobiographical novel Passing Through Havana: A Novel of a Wartime Girlhood in the Caribbean (1984), which depicts her Jewish family’s flight in 1941 from Nazi-occupied Belgium to Cuba. Overlaying the refugee narrative with a narrative of adolescent sexual awakening that emphasizes the sensuality of the tropics, Rosshandler’s novel at times promotes a primitivist, exoticizing gaze. This article examines Passing Through Havana ’s intertwining of the refugee narrative with a colonialist gaze and the larger tensions that the novel highlights with regard to Jewishness and race in the Caribbean.
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My Refugee
The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.
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Foreign soil and other stories
From a new voice in international fiction, a prize-winning collection of stories that cross the world--Africa, London, the West Indies, Australia--and express the global experience \"with exquisite sensitivity\" (Dave Eggers, author of The Circle). In this collection of award-winning stories, Maxine Beneba Clarke gives voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, and the mistreated. Her stories will challenge you, move you, and change the way you view this complex world we inhabit. Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on the war-path through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton; a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance; a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny; and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way. In the bestselling tradition of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Marlon James, this urgent, poetic, and essential work announces the arrival of a fresh and talented voice in international fiction.
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The Gurugu pledge : a novel
\"On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city's walls and gain asylum on European soil. Inspired by firsthand accounts, Juan Tomas Avila Laurel has written an urgent novel, by turns funny and sad, bringing a distinctly African perspective to a major issue of our time. -- Provided by publisher.
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The Jungle and the Sea
War makes things of people.The Jungle and the Sea is about a family who refuse to become things while they are still alive.When violence escalates between the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a Tamil mother vows to remain blindfolded until her family is together once again.
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