{"id":5453,"date":"2022-06-15T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2022-06-15T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:41:07","slug":"talking-points-the-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2022\/06\/15\/talking-points-the-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points: The Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Audrey1crop\"This is one of four linked blogposts, building on the Norman Maclean \u201cTalking Points<\/a><\/strong>\u201d series of discussions, which focus on specific contributions from the participants.<\/em><\/p>\n

Audrey West\u2019s first language is Jamaican, and she\u2019s trained to teach Spanish and French, as well as in Cultural Memory. <\/em><\/p>\n

This gives her an awareness of the intergenerational post-trauma resulting from the trans-Atlantic practice of enslaving Africans for European colonial gain. <\/em><\/p>\n

Resident in North Wales, she works as an artist, poet, linguist, psychotherapist, trainer, and community development practitioner.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this extract <\/em>from the Norman Maclean <\/em>Language Hierarchies<\/em><\/a><\/strong> discussion <\/em>Audrey reflects on her unrecognised bilingualism, being brought up in a Jamaican home in London. Norman\u2019s exhortation to maintain the mother tongue struck home as she acknowledges how stigmatisation prevented ongoing intergenerational transmission.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n