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2274 - In Conversation with Jewell Parker Rhodes

Time:Sat 22 Aug 09 2:30 PM
Venue:ACMI Studio 1
ACMI, Federation Square
Melbourne, VIC, 3000
Runtime:60 mins

Session Description

Jewell Parker Rhodes the author of five novels: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Voodoo Season, and Yellow Moon; and a memoir, Porch Stories has focused on the lives of African-American women, inspired by her grandmother, Ernestine Thornton. She tells Monash University academic Chandani Lokuge that it was Thornton's moral guidance, delivered in stories told on her porch that shaped Rhodes' career.
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