Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Incandescent to Apocalyptic: Impressions from QPF
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'In a scintillating talk organised by Express Media (and available on YouTube), the Dharug/Bundjalung poet Evelyn Araluen speaks of the production of literature as historically being a dangerous place for Aboriginal people. I heard her say this around the time I was reading Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s The White Possessive, Penny van Toorn’s Writing Always [sic] Arrives Naked and Gomeroi writer Alison Whittaker’s beautiful Lemons in the Chicken Wire. Araluen’s statement occupied my thinking for some months, and not just because I think it’s true. The essential aspect of resisting privilege, which white, middle-aged men like myself have been given in shedloads for free, is that the only way to address it is to continually have humbling experiences. And as we are unlikely to get such things from other white men – humiliation not being the same as being humbled – if we are not seeking out writers like Whittaker, Araluen or Moreton-Robinson, we’re making ourselves even more useless and obstructive than we already are.'  (Introduction)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Last amended 28 Aug 2018 10:58:41
https://overland.org.au/2018/08/incandescent-to-apocalyptic-impressions-from-the-queensland-poetry-festival/ Incandescent to Apocalyptic: Impressions from QPFsmall AustLit logo Overland [Online]
Subjects:
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X