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Book Review: Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette, 2014, ISBN 9780733632426. Within Maxine Beneba Clarke's Foreign Soil, there is a constant shifting, a continual and often uncomfortable interplay between acts of speaking and acts of writing, between text and voice and back again. Speaking and writing, in Foreign Soil, are never simple acts. Both are, of course, embedded within the body, and as such are deeply personal and even instinctual; but they are, at the same time, inextricably implicated in wider social circuits of violence, of bodies politic, of privilege and power.

Original language	English
Number of pages	9
Journal	Sydney Review of Books
Publication status	Published - 2014

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