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Quiet as an Ashtray single work   poetry   "The writer bothered himself, and then he grew kind. His kindness was of a sort, an affectation rumoured in his Proust streak"
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Quiet as an Ashtray
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Telling Someone Else's Story vol. 75 no. 4 Summer 2016 10855789 2016 periodical issue

    'Stories can have a determining power, the authority of the assumed and accepted narrative.

    'We all have our own of course, and perhaps the capacity to imagine the stories of hypothetical others. In everyday life that might pass for empathy; in literature it can carry an edge of privilege and controversy. And in fact? In non-fiction?

    'In this edition, a timely exploration framed by that great Australian woman of letters Alexis Wright, a long musing on the often vexed intersections between our first peoples and the narrative that explains and explores the Indigenous position in modern Australia. Whose stories are these to tell? Who owns this continuing tale?' (Editorial introduction)

    2016
    pg. 171
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Online 2016 21128347 2016 periodical issue 2016
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