![]() This bloody bullshit about the forgotten white working class – if there’s any forgotten people in Australia, if there’s any battlers in Australia, it’s brown and black people.On aboriginal lore in “The interview: Melissa Lucashenko” in The Sydney Morning Herald (2013 Mar 9).But if you actually understand the old culture then you understand that we are all in it together. I have reviewed many individual short stories by Americans (through the Library of America), but not by Australians.Time to rectify that a little, and why not with a short story by Melissa Lucashenko, an Australian writer of European and indigenous Australian heritage. And we have lost those things to some degree. Her work has been nominated for pretty much every Australian. Bitterness comes from loss of culture and loss of lore. Indigenous writer Melissa Lukashenko has been writing poetry, essays and novels for decades. ![]() Aboriginal lore is vast and it is inclusive.On how readers might approach her writings in “The interview: Melissa Lucashenko” in The Sydney Morning Herald (2013 Mar 9).It is a novel about belonging and it is a novel about difference, too.' But it is not their story, and the language is familiar but it is not their language. When my readers enter the world of my book I want them to feel like they can find a place to belong in my story. I am not writing to make people feel warm and comfortable.On how the indigenous view the world differently in “The interview: Melissa Lucashenko” in The Sydney Morning Herald (2013 Mar 9).White people see Rotary parks and headlands, we see sacred sites. We see the world that white people see but we are also seeing a mythic landscape at the same time and an historic landscape. Melissa Lucashenko (born 1967) is an Indigenous Australian writer. ![]()
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