Michelle D'Souza Cahill

Identity, Appropriation and an Interrupted Kind of Absence

Identity, Appropriation and an Interrupted Kind of Absence

In conversation with Michelle D’Souza Cahill

Issue no. 12

It is problematic to harp on about appropriation without some consideration of the severe disproportion in literary representation and the subjective filters that invariably do apply. In other words, who is narrating the stories about cultural difference? Shriver was deplatformed in Brisbane. Her opening speech was insensitive to Aboriginal people and other minorities in Australia …