Ashok Ferry on writing Sri Lanka and his younger selves
“This society is fragmented – it’s a product of colonialism, but it’s also just a fact of paradise island.”
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Praiseworthy
Wright did not create a story that is simply about the Aboriginal town of Praiseworthy in Northern Australia, she created a wholly Indigenous novel.
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Neither Indigenous nor colonial: Identured Labourers at the boundaries of postcolonial categories
When over 1 million indentured labourers left the sub-Indian continent to work in the British colonies of the world, they had to redefine their cultural identity…
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
Clayton Thomas-Müller’s Life in the City of Dirty Water, A Memoir of Healing is a must read, especially for people interested in climate justice, but it can also help non-Indigenous people to understand the struggles of Indigenous communities, particularly the ones in urban areas in North America.
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Cozy reading and writing workshop: giving gifts
Warm invitation to our cozy online workshop to welcome winter. We’ll read and write with Giuliana Kierz.
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“It’s the language of the colonizer” – An interview with jarral Boyd about indigeneity and language
jarral Boyd grew up on Turtle Island and is the child of Indigenous and Black parents. Since they have lived in Berlin, jarral has worked in schools, created community structures for diversity and inclusion, given workshops as an allyship trainer at conferences…
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Raising the Spirit of Un-belonging
As part of the Barrio Berlin festival, Hopscotch Reading Room, and poco.lit. co-program an evening at the cemetery café Lisbeth. Several dozen people squeeze into the building for a reading by Avrina Prabala-Joslin, a Tamil poet, and Maya Saravia, a Guatemalan artist.
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The Sentence
The recent novel by US-American writer Louise Erdrich centres on an Ojibwe woman called Tookie, grappling with her own past in the midst of the pandemic, protests and upheaval in Minneapolis.
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An Ordinary Day at the Museum
Before I let you in on the strange journey that we were about to commence, I must share my history with you. I was borne by a boulder up in Sápmi, a land the Sámi has lived on sine the ice started revealing the land.
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“People are read differently depending on where they are”: A conversation with Raphaëlle Red on the principle of the road novel
Raphaëlle Red is an author currently living in Berlin who writes in French, German and English. She is also doing her PhD on literature in the African diaspora. We had the pleasure of speaking with her about her French-language debut novel Adikou, its protagonist’s journey and its context from one language to the next. The German translation of the novel by Patricia Klobusiczky was published in September 2024 by Rowohlt Verlag.
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