I was going to post these facetiously 'for Tea's benefit'.
This is the full transcript of the keynote speech, Fiction and Identity Politics, that author Lionel Shriver gave at the Brisbane Writers Festival
www.theguardian.com
I spent much of my time reading writer Lionel Shriver’s recent speech at the Brisbane Writers Festival first, with my mouth open, then trying to ascertain if she was genuinely obtuse or trying to w…
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Shriver's recourse to extremes should be familiar territory.
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I take issue with this nigh-autistic retort to Luka's comment about 'allowed'. Of course there are not legal documentations issued by a central body for those allowed to be published and those not. But you know, like any field, representation is skewed by a set of power relations everyone feels but cannot quite outline. There is, a certain type of person that is '%' more likely to find a book deal because of privileges they didn't earn - this is why the 'well don't read it then' response is not good enough. This type of 'what do you mean allowed?' response is akin to Shriver's use of the Sombrero in her obtuse-for-clicks bait piece. Of course a Sombrero is just a hat useful for keeping the sun off. But when it's worn for novelty value, by those with more privilege than their latino objects of caricature then it is more than a hat. Don't be deaf to this. Luka didn't mean 'allowed' in the strictest sense, but, as one a word term for how whole swathes of life are barely represented by big publishing it wasn't a bad choice.