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M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history

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M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development.
In discussion with Prof. Elleke Boehmer, Prof. Marina Warner offers a response that emphasises the transformative power of story, and Matthew Reynolds discusses Philip’s linguistic innovations.

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Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities.
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Great Writers Inspire at Home
People
M NourbeSe Philip
Marina Warner
Matthew Reynolds
Elleke Boehmer
Keywords
literature
poetry
performance
language
Caribbean literature
story
translation
slavery
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 01:41:04

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