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Narrating Resistance
Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet and the author of seven books, including the verse novel Ruby Moonlight, the poetry collection Inside My Mother, and the memoir Too Afraid to Cry. In 2017, she was awarded Yale University's Windham Campbell Prize in Poetry.
Moderator: Elissa Washuta (Ohio State English, Creative Writing)
With a focus on the work of Yankunytjatjara writer Ali Cobby Eckermann, this graduate workshop will explore literary approaches to building narratives of resistance in defiance of the fragmenting violence of colonialism. Eckermann’s works of poetry and memoir enact and honor the grieving of losses inflicted by the Australian government through forced separation of Aboriginal families.
