I have been a bad girl. A bad bad girl. Can’t say that I’m sorry, but nevertheless I apologise. Promises that I would keep up with blogging through my honours degree have fallen to the wayside as I just waded through the mountains of study that was involved in the construction of these two masterpieces.
Being and Becoming a collection of poetry that I will not put online as I’m in the process of publishing pieces from it. And Writing Fom Where We Are: Framing the Australian African diaspora in Australian contemporary literature (yes it’s a mouthful). Both pieces are work I’m extremely proud of and can present honestly saying that I have DONE the work and then some.
I join other Indigenous researchers in trying to be faithful to a methodology that is mindful of knowledge creation, dissemination and the validity of such knowledge. Most notably the work used Stuart Hall’s ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ as a framework through which to engage this line of inquiry. The research method is influenced by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples and Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods.
I will post my bibliography below, as I believe that anyone researching in this area, particularly within Australia, needs the power of community to build on this body of knowledge, so if you have questions just ask I love to engage and learn with other people.
Poetry by Australian’s of the African diaspora was SO hard to come by. It is not because we don’t write, it is generally because we are not visible. I found Maxine Beneba Clarke’s Carrying the World, which should not be passed over easily, her work is a gift. But in good company I found the work of Magan Magan in From Grains to Gold, Gabrielle Journey Jones Spoken Medicine and Arielle 
Cottingham Black and Ropy. Something that I think can only be remedied by having a more diverse range of people in positions of power within publishing companies.
I’ll definitely write more on this process. At present I need to find work to support my little people, but this kind of study is ongoing. There is really a need to educate ourselves in unwritten histories and even in what is going on in community now.
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