“Writing Children, Writing Ourselves”: Janet Morrison, Jean Hawthorn-DaCosta & Juleus Ghunta

Children’s writers from Jamaica get together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the island’s independence, and explore the continuity and convergence of childhood and adulthood in Caribbean fiction. With Janet Morrison on A Different Me, A Better You, Jean Hawthorn-DaCosta on Leroy: Adventures of a Yaad Boy, and Juleus Ghunta on Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows. Moderating is author Opal Palmer Adisa, Portia Dreams.

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