The
Resting Place of the Imagination
A talk by renowned writer and poet
Ramabai Espinet
@ MCC
on Wednesday, 03 February 2016 @ 10 am
in the Selaiyur Hall Indoor Theatre
Be there!
Author Biography
Ramabai
Espinet is an Indo-Caribbean-Canadian writer. Espinet’s
ageless, angry, and poetic writing weaves the idea of the Asian Diaspora with
the struggles and lifestyles of the modern Indo-Caribbean woman. Ramabai
Espinet is a woman who writes with the clarity and wisdom of someone who has
lived her stories. One example of this is the short story “Barred,” in which
she describes an Indian woman living in Trinidad and Tobago. The protagonist of
the story is trying to make enough money to sustain herself and her child
despite an abusive and alcoholic husband. Her first novel, The Swinging Bridge, was shortlisted for the Regional Commonwealth
Writers Prize in 2004. The acclaimed novel carries the reader from
nineteenth-century India across the sea to the cane fields of Trinidad and then
to modern-day Canada.
For more on the writer click HERE
For more on the writer click HERE
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