Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Till ‘Real Voices’ Wake Us, and We Drown : The Mire of Identity Politics
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'We can learn much about a culture by listening to how it talks about its art. The way non-white writers, for want of a better phrase, tend to be reviewed in Australia tells us a lot about how we determine cultural value. Some reviewers place a premium on the author’s biography – her identity – rather than on her work itself. The reviewer avoids critical engagement with the text in favour of a kind of reverential praise of its political messaging. This messaging isn’t necessarily determined by the content of the work, but rather by a mistaken conflation of the work with the author’s cultural identity. It’s a kind of habit, a reflexive way of reading literature, especially literature by non-white authors, as if the mere act of writing a book were fundamentally and inevitably political – or, as they say, an ‘act of resistance’.' 

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    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review no. 440 March 2022 23914495 2022 periodical issue 2022 pg. 8-10
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      • Posted March 9, 2022
      Series: y separately published work icon The ABR Podcast 2022 Southbank : Australian Book Review, Inc. , 2022 26765787 2022 single work podcast Number in series: 96
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