{"id":55692,"date":"2018-02-12T02:07:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55692"},"modified":"2018-02-12T02:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T02:07:56","slug":"you-cant-be-a-white-australian-writer-and-spend-your-whole-life-ignoring-the-greatest-most-important-aspect-of-our-history-and-that-is-that-we-i-have-been-the-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55692","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou can\u2019t be a white Australian writer and spend your whole life ignoring the greatest, most important aspect of our history, and that is that we \u2013 I \u2013 have been the beneficiaries of a genocide.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Long Way from Home<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petercareybooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Carey\u2019s<\/a> 14th novel, uses the story of a light-skinned Indigenous Australian who has been brought up white to address the country\u2019s brutal history of racism. It seems strange at first that Carey \u2013 surely <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australia\u2019s<\/a> greatest living novelist, even if he hasn\u2019t dwelled there for decades \u2013 has taken so long to get around to the subject. In a recent interview in the <em>Australian<\/em>, he said that he\u2019d always felt that it was not the place of a white writer to tell this tale. Then something changed: \u201cYou can\u2019t be a white Australian writer and spend your whole life ignoring the greatest, most important aspect of our history, and that is that we \u2013 I \u2013 have been the beneficiaries of a genocide.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alex Preston, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Long Way from Home<\/em> review \u2013 Peter Carey\u2019s best novel in decades<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, January 15, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/jan\/15\/a-long-way-from-home-peter-carey-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/jan\/15\/a-long-way-from-home-peter-carey-review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Way from Home, Peter Carey\u2019s 14th novel, uses the story of a light-skinned Indigenous Australian who has been brought up white to address the country\u2019s brutal history of racism. It seems strange at first that Carey \u2013 surely Australia\u2019s greatest living novelist, even if he hasn\u2019t dwelled there for decades \u2013 has taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27956,986,27955,2103],"class_list":["post-55692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-alex-preston","tag-australia","tag-peter-carey","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55692","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=55692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55693,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55692\/revisions\/55693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}