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In conversation with Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jewell Parker Rhodes the author of five novels including Voodoo Dreams, Magic City and Voodoo Season, 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.
Information
Date: 22 Aug 2009

Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Venue: ACMI Studio 1

Code: 2274

Cost: $16.00 full $14.00 concession until August 1
$20.00 full $18.00 concession from August 2

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