Looking
Back to Look Forwards
10 - 14 December 2012
Under the auspices of the
10 - 14 December 2012
Under the auspices of the
Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de
Barcelona
And the Centre
for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University
From
There to Here
Gloria Montero, Jamal Mahjoub, Ron Pretty
Abstract
How did we get from there to here? Jamal Mahjoub, Gloria Montero and Ron
Pretty have all either grown up in one continent and now live in another,
or are descendants of people who did. Building on these experiences, these
papers will explore aspects of displacement and of the awareness of 'The
Other' as recorded in the authors' own works and in the works of other
writers fromAustralia , Spain
displacement? Motifs of nostalgia, of incomprehension, of threat and
ambition will be explored. In this session, the ways in which these tropes
are embodied in the language and structure of contemporary prose and
poetry will be explored.
Gloria Montero, Jamal Mahjoub, Ron Pretty
Abstract
How did we get from there to here? Jamal Mahjoub, Gloria Montero and Ron
Pretty have all either grown up in one continent and now live in another,
or are descendants of people who did. Building on these experiences, these
papers will explore aspects of displacement and of the awareness of 'The
Other' as recorded in the authors' own works and in the works of other
writers from
displacement? Motifs of nostalgia, of incomprehension, of threat and
ambition will be explored. In this session, the ways in which these tropes
are embodied in the language and structure of contemporary prose and
poetry will be explored.
