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Maxine Beneba Clarke
Źródło: https://www.hachette.com.au/maxine-beneba-clarke/
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Pisze książki: literatura obyczajowa, romans
Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Maxine's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The Age, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and The Big Issue. Her critically acclaimed short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2015 and the 2015 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writing at the 2015 ABIAs and the 2015 Stella Prize. She was also named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists for 2015. Maxine has published three poetry collections including Carrying the World, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 2017 and was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award. The Hate Race, a memoir about growing up black in Australia won the NSW Premier's Literary Award Multicultural NSW Award 2017 and was shortlisted for an ABIA, an Indie Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and Stella Prize. The Patchwork Bike, Maxine's first picture book with Van T. Rudd was a CBCA Honour Book for 2017.https://twitter.com/slamup
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Foreign Soil Maxine Beneba Clarke
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In her preferred short length stories, Maxine Beneba Clarke introduces the characters from Australia, Jamaica, England, Sri Lanka, and Uganda. In her piercing responses to Tony Britten’s questions on the Foreign Soil collection, the author admits its nature is semi-autobiographical as some of her stories were inspired by political events and her personal experience:
Harlem Jones was inspired by the 2011 Tottenham riots in London. The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa is set in an Australian detention centre. My first ‘career’ was in human rights law, and those themes and interests have carried over into my writing. (Britten, 2016, 26)
Through the story “Big Islan,” Maxine Beneba Clarke portrays the post colonial displacement problematics comparing Great Britain, the island of migration desire, to Jamaica. Clarise teaches her husband Nathaniel to read in order to broad their economic perspectives. As a result, Ruth McHugh-Dillon notices, “[e]ducation in the story proves its ambivalent, decolonising potential, as both submission to the coloniser’s system and new means to subvert it” (2018, 1).
The prevalent subject of migration is developed further in The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa where the author tackles assimilation and silencing. In this setting, the story is crucial for refugee rights as it gives agency to immigrants from South Globe. Powerless and in despair, Asanaka steals the necessary tools from Loretta’s bag to sew his mouth. The metaphor serves to depict him back again, in the Australian officer’s eyes, to a fish, “caught, trapped, helpless and awaiting its inevitable fate” (Edwards & Hogarth, 2017, 8).
Maxine Beneba Clarke’s writing is important because it underlines the significance of equality, respect, and fundamental human rights and values in the era of the biggest migrations since the World War II. Her stories show the bold pain, anger, intercultural differences intertwined with assimilation and lack of asylum.
Britten, T. (2016). Interview with Maxine Beneba Clarke. Metaphor, 2, 25-27.
Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2017). Fishermen and Little Fish: Migration and Hospitality in Maxine Beneba Clarke's 'The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa.' Portal : Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 13(2),1-10.
McHugh-Dillon, R. (2018). Island Mentality: Mapping “de globality ov it all” between Jamaica, England, and Australia in Maxine Beneba Clarke’s “Big Islan.” Postcolonial Text, 13(4),1-15.