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Remembering Deep Pasts for the Present: the Transformative Potential of Indigenous Memory Cultures in Australia and Globally
Australia is witnessing a surge of public works by Indigenous creatives across the arts that broadcast the message of ‘ever present’ and ‘always will be’.
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South African prison writing
This research project returns to and reconsiders the many representations of prison experience by political prisoners under apartheid, comparing them to new memoirs published since 2000.
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Aesthetics of Trauma: Transgenerational Memory and the Poetics of Repair
Interest in the study of the traumatic repercussions of violent histories on descendants of victims and survivors has proliferated in the sub-field of memory and trauma studies, with earlier research in the field focusing mainly on descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Publication
The race for reparation(s), the (im)possibility of repair in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull
Phiri, Aretha. 2020. The race for reparation(s), the (im)possibility of repair in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Antjie Krog’s Country of My Sk...
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School Photos in Liquid Time
Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer. 2020. School Photos in Liquid Time. University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029574...
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Dealing with Trauma and Guilt in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Making Public Spaces Intimate
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. 2010. Dealing with Trauma and Guilt in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Making Public Spaces Intimate. Duke Universi...
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Finding and Growing Athlone
Baderoon, Gabeba. 2017. Finding and Growing Athlone. New England Review, 38(4), 37–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2017.0098
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Axis and Revolution
The themes of the collection Axis and Revolution, my fourth book of poetry, range from poetry as autobiography to the contemporary legacy of slavery, a topic that has engaged my critical as well as creative writing.
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Commemorating Painful Pasts through Performative Practices
The 19th and the beginning of the 20th century have left a dark legacy behind: world wars, genocides, civil wars, dictatorships and terrorist attacks with millions of people tortured, persecuted, displaced, dead, or disappeared without a trace.
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The Heartbeat of a Storm
After writing five novels, a collection of short stories and a musical, which largely drew from South Africas troubled past, I will use the period at STIAS to write a semi-autobiographical (or novelized) account of the use of technology or forensic science to make sense of our past and of our future.
