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X-WR-CALNAME:Book Talk - "After Darkness" By Christine Piper
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DESCRIPTION:Author Christine Piper will discuss her award-winning novel\, A
 fter Darkness.\n\nHalf-Japanese Australian author Christine Piper will dis
 cuss her award-winning novel\, After Darkness\, and its themes of identity
 \, otherness and the immigrant experience. Set during World War 2\, After 
 Darkness is narrated by a Japanese doctor who is arrested as an enemy alie
 n in the pearling port of Broome and then interned at a remote camp in Sou
 th Australia. When tensions between the nationalist Japanese and the Austr
 alian-born Japanese internees escalate\, the doctor’s long-held beliefs 
 are thrown into question and he is forced to confront his dark past: the p
 romise he made in Japan and its devastating consequences.\n\nChristine wil
 l comment on the novel’s inspiration and her approach to the research (s
 ee http://lovedayproject.com)\, as well as more general topics such as the
  Japanese community in Australia and issues facing a mixed-race writer.\n\
 nBIO\n\nChristine Piper is a writer concerned with social justice and the 
 immigrant experience. Born in South Korea to an Australian father and a Ja
 panese mother\, she was raised in Australia and now lives in New York. She
  won the Vogel’s Literary Award for manuscripts by writers under the age
  of 35\, and her debut novel\, After Darkness\, was published in Australia
  and New Zealand in 2014. It has since been shortlisted for numerous award
 s including the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Christine also won the 2014
  Calibre Essay Prize for her essay about Japan’s wartime memory and the 
 struggle to recognize the victims of war (www.australianbookreview.com.au/
 abr-online/current-issue/114-april-2014-no-360/1898-unearthing-the-past). 
 She has studied creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the U
 niversity of Technology\, Sydney\, where she wrote a version of After Dark
 ness as part of her doctoral degree. More information about Christine Pipe
 r can be found at www.christinepiper.com\n\nCONTACT PHONE (213) 821-4365\n
 CONTACT EMAIL cjrc@dornsife.usc.edu\n\nFlyer | RSVP
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LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, East Asian Seminar Room (110C)
SUMMARY:Book Talk - "After Darkness" By Christine Piper
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CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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