“Displaced”

2020 Patel, Zoya. “Displaced.” After Australia. Ed. Michael Mohammed Ahmad (South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement, 2020), 87-105. The book includes a “Prologue Black Thoughts: Unreconciliatory Futures” (1-7), Interludes “Black Thoughts: Miscegenation” (77-85) and “Black Thoughts: Horses and Mules” (159-163), and an Epilogue “Black Thoughts: Pemulwuy” (251-257) by Hannah Donnelly, a Wiradjuri writer who is Curator of Aboriginal Programs at Carriageworks, and an Afterword “A Timeline to 2050” (259-265) by Linda Nahlous, Executive Director, Diversity Arts Australia. PSt  

The story is set in a future in which Fiji and many other islands and coasts have been flooded. The protagonist is a Fijian who immigrated to Australia and become a citizen, who is hoping that her relatives will be accepted for immigration. It also notes the racism of the immigration process, and the growing racism directed at people of color. The female author was born in Fiji of Indian ancestry and as a child immigrated to Australia, where she lives.