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Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community

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Great Writers Inspire at Home
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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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Selma Dabbagh
Courttia Newland
Keywords
literature
novel
short story
Caribbean literature
Palestinian literature
migration
belonging
British identity
reading
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 01:21:43

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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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M NourbeSe Philip
Marina Warner
Matthew Reynolds
Elleke Boehmer
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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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Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing

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Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing.
Dr Henghameh Saroukhani considers the literary importance of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub poetry, and Dr Florian Stadtler looks at recent Asian-British cinema.

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Susheila Nasta
Mark Stein
Gail Low
Henghameh Saroukhani
Florian Stadtler
Keywords
literature
reading
Black and Asian British writing
British identity
publishing history
Caribbean literature
dub poetry
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Asian-British cinema
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 01:39:17

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Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love

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Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity.

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Aminatta Forna
Ankhi Mukherjee
Keywords
writers in dialogue
literature
sierra leone
trauma
memory
psychology
novel
reading
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 00:59:19

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Nadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba Boy

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Nadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain.
In discussion with Dr Kate Wallis, she talks about the process of writing the novel, and how it has been read and received in Britain and elsewhere.

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Nadifa Mohamed
Kate Wallis
Keywords
writers in dialogue
literature
novels
biography
Somaliland
East Africa
British identity
migration
travel
reading
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 00:54:09

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D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’

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D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents a performance installation that explores the notion of the liberated woman from an African feminist perspective.
The performance is followed by a discussion and responses to the work by Dr Erica Lombard and the audience

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D-Empress Dianne Regisford
Rev J
Erica Lombard
Keywords
writers in dialogue
literature
poetry
performance
sculpture
multimedia
African feminism
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 01:13:40

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Daljit Nagra on voice and identity in Look We Have Coming to Dover!

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Daljit Nagra reads from and discusses his celebrated debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007). In conversation with Dr Rachael Gilmour and the audience, he speaks about how and why he writes his poetry, and the readers for whom he writes.

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Daljit Nagra
Rachael Gilmour
Keywords
writers in dialogue
literature
poetry
immigration
South Asian
British identity
reading
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 00:51:44

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Bernardine Evaristo on writing Britain’s Black histories

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In conversation with Dr Zoe Norridge and Marsha Hutchinson, Bernardine Evaristo reads from and discusses her remarkable verse novel, The Emperor’s Babe (2001), which tells the story of a African girl growing up in Roman London in 211 AD.

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Bernardine Evaristo
Zoe Norridge
Marsha Hutchinson
Keywords
writers in dialogue
literature
poetry
black Britain
ancient Rome
history
reading
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 00:46:55

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Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone

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Author Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience.
She speaks about the inspiration for the novel, who she writes for, and how she transforms historical facts into compelling narrative.

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Kamila Shamsie
Elleke Boehmer
Keywords
writers in dialogue
literature
Pakistan
empire
first world war
history
South Asia
reading
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 00:59:36

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Readers and Readings

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Prof. Elleke Boehmer and Dr Erica Lombard consider how our reading experiences are shaped by various factors, from publishers’ decisions about book covers to the text itself.

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Elleke Boehmer
Erica Lombard
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reading
literature
identity
book covers
publishers
cognitive theory
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 25/08/2017
Duration: 00:51:58

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