cultural appropriation

Some observations in three colours on ‘Beyond Tick Boxes’

By Roanna Gonsalves

(This is a reworked version of the summary observations I was invited to present at the conclusion of ‘Beyond Tick Boxes’, a symposium organised by Diversity Arts Australia, or DARTS, at Casula Powerhouse, on Thursday, June 29, 2017)

Good afternoon everyone. I’d also like to acknowledge the indigenous people of this country, the Cabrogal Clan of the Darug Nation, on whose land we have gathered today. I would like to say thank you to Lena Nahlous and Kevin Bathman for inviting me to give you a very short and incredibly opinionated summary of my observations today.

I have three main observations. They are colour-coded: red, black and yellow.

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14/08/17 Arts & Culture , Australia , Diaspora & Travel , Society & Politics # Arundhati Roy, Asia, Australia, cultural appropriation, cultural cache, diaspora, Imaginary Homelands, Manjushree Thapa, Nepal, Nepal Literature Festival, Nepali writers, NWES, Prakash Subedi, Pranaya Rana, Prawin Adhikari, Rabi Thapa, Rushdie, Samrat Upadhyay, South Asia, Sushma Joshi

The Writer ‘Abroad’ and the Readers ‘Back Home’

By Prakash Subedi

To be a non-white writer in the west today is probably very different from it was, say, fifty years ago. Books and ideas travel much faster now, and even if you are writing and publishing in the west, there are more and more people back home who have access to your works. And while this was always the case to some extent, it is now truer than ever that the most passionate responses and vociferous objections to your work are likely to come from readers at home. More often than not, by virtue of being based in a western country and writing about your home, your writing is treated with wariness and your motives with suspicion.

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14/08/17 Arts & Culture , Australia , Diaspora & Travel , Society & Politics # Asia, Australia, beneficiaries, cultural appropriation, cultural cache, culture, diaspora, India, POC, Rashida Murphy, South Asia, The Historian's Daughter, WOC, writing

Whose culture is it anyway?

By Rashida Murphy

When the editors of Southern Crossings invited me to write about the idea that migrant writers use their cultural history, ethnicity and language to mobilise the ‘exotic’ nature of our cultural cache, I was keen to explore this idea further. The notion that what was previously considered a handicap is now desirable, catches me by surprise and brings to mind the (in) famous question asked by Jana Wendt of Toni Morrison in 1998.

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22/09/16 Arts & Culture , Australia , Diaspora & Travel , Society & Politics # authorial autonomy, cultural appropriation, hegemony, responsibility, Shriver, voice

The furore over cultural appropriation

By Arjun Rajkhowa

American writer Lionel Shriver recently delivered a keynote speech at the Brisbane Writer’s Festival where she discussed cultural appropriation, authorial autonomy, social expectations around works of art and a host of other subjects that have arguably been at the forefront of much critical debate in recent times.

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26/05/15 Arts & Culture , Society & Politics # Aboriginal, African American, cultural appropriation, culture, Gwen Stefani, Indian, Japanese, Madonna, MIA, Nicki Minaj, pop culture

The Thing About Cultural Appropriation

by Gary Paramanathan

Cultural appropriation is rife these days, just about everyone from Miley Cyrus to your non-Japanese neighbour in her geisha outfit are edging on pushing some cultural politico over the edge. I was one of them, I was totally sold on cultural appropriation, and by that I mean how bad it was, how it needed to be stopped….etc etc. Then I started having my doubts.

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Some observations in three colours on ‘Beyond Tick Boxes’

The Writer ‘Abroad’ and the Readers ‘Back Home’

Whose culture is it anyway?

The furore over cultural appropriation

The Thing About Cultural Appropriation

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