tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post110179147217308267..comments2024-03-18T19:46:10.130+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Meeting Kate Grenville and Tim WintonJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-58900764903521642362008-08-08T16:32:00.000+05:302008-08-08T16:32:00.000+05:30"Cultural Cringe", I like that word. I am an Asian..."Cultural Cringe", I like that word. I am an Asian immigrant living in so-called posh Sydney North Shore suburbs for only 20 years and I was already infected with that disease.(I rather read Gosh or Roy or Rushdie than Winton or Grenville.)<BR/><BR/>Though, I think that could be the pleasant side effect of living in a society with a disreputable background and a genocidal history, and which was only 200 years old.(It is absolutely impossible to be part of 60,000 years old Aboriginal society here as they are more strictly race-based than mainstream white society here.)<BR/><BR/>But it's nice here, for we, only 20 millions, collectively owned the whole massive continent. We do need to do nothing else, but just dig the earth beneath and sell the dirt to the rest of the world.<BR/><BR/>My proof is based on the fact that the Australia's richest man is the chief dirt digger called Andrew "Twiggy" Forest, the CEO of Fortescue Iron Ore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-24103237245888301632007-08-30T11:32:00.000+05:302007-08-30T11:32:00.000+05:30What do you mean she was very "un australian"? wha...What do you mean she was very "un australian"? what is it with people and that expression? What is it with Australians and that expression? It all comes back to all that "Australian Identity" (meaning WHITE identity) twaddle from upper class north shore conservatives. (i know this comment is slightly unrelated to your very intellectual recount but arrgh!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1126362149820482172005-09-10T19:52:00.000+05:302005-09-10T19:52:00.000+05:30i'm very, very late on this one, and don't really ...i'm very, very late on this one, and don't really have much to say either, but i thought i'd ask--did you read grenville's <I> joan makes history</I>? <BR/>it's a little unsettling to the image of her that's largely perceived: the white <I> female</I> australian novelist sympathetic of the subaltern histories of the australian minorities-- aboriginals and women. <BR/><BR/>and i thought, though i could be wrong, that the cultural cringe was a thing australia was getting over? say, 1960s or so onwards, it has had it's own readership, and slowly, the anxiety of western acceptance is (supposed to be) receding. oh well.Rimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04344200811838569151noreply@blogger.com