Roanna Gonsalves

Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident, a collection of short fiction published by UWAP in November 2016. Her series of radio documentaries entitled On the tip of a billion tongues was commissioned and broadcast by Earshot, ABC RN in 2015. She received the Prime Minister’s Endeavour Award 2013 and is co-founder and co-editor of Southern Crossings. See her website at roannagonsalves.com.au

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20 April 201722 May 2017 · Writing

See me showing you me

Roanna Gonsalves

From my position as an Indian immigrant in Australia, a writer and scholar, Questions of Travel provided a selfie of a country that I and people like me could retweet and circulate, contributing to the flow of the literary selfie. In this book I saw a Sri Lankan Australian author writing about Sri Lanka, Australia and our larger world: a self enacting self. A text saying ‘see me showing you me’. Not through autobiography, but through the work that only fiction can do.