{"id":26856,"date":"2012-12-09T03:12:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T03:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26856"},"modified":"2012-12-09T03:12:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T03:12:23","slug":"jackie-kay-and-sebastian-barry-identity-and-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26856","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/audio\/2011\/aug\/15\/books-podcast-edinburgh-book-festival-jackie-kay-sebastian-barry\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2011-08-15<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/sarahcrown\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Crown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In our inaugural podcast from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sebastian_Barry\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Barry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/staff\/profile\/jackie.kay\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Kay<\/a> talk to us about the themes that power their work<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In our first podcast from the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival, we explore questions of identity and struggle as played out in the 20th-century&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The poet and novelist Jackie Kay turned memoirist last year with her book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7023\" target=\"_blank\">Red Dust Road<\/a><\/em>, an account of her search for her birth parents: a white Scottish woman, and a Nigerian man. Her writing reflects her grappling with the thorny issue of her own identity, and she reveals how this podcast has reconnected her with her family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Jackie Kay reads &#8220;Burying My African Father.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article here.\u00a0 Listen to the audio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/audio\/2011\/aug\/15\/books-podcast-edinburgh-book-festival-jackie-kay-sebastian-barry?popup=true\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the audio <a href=\"http:\/\/download.guardian.co.uk\/audio\/kip\/books\/series\/books\/1313394782549\/4978\/gdn.bks.110814.ic.Books_Podcast.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle The Guardian 2011-08-15 Sarah Crown In our inaugural podcast from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Sebastian Barry and Jackie Kay talk to us about the themes that power their work In our first podcast from the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival, we explore questions of identity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,2850,8,10],"tags":[13048,1587,13047,13049,2103],"class_list":["post-26856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-audio","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-edinburgh-international-book-festival","tag-jackie-kay","tag-sarah-crown","tag-sebastian-barry","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}