{"id":1582,"date":"2023-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2025-01-01T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:06:20","slug":"family-stories-of-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/07\/08\/family-stories-of-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Family: Stories of Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Aliana Gougoulls and Ian See<\/strong> <strong>(Eds)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Penguin Random House<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, July 8th 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The stories in this Australian collection explore the complicated and multifaceted nature of family, both natal and created. For each of these writers the word has a different meaning \u2013 mothers, grandmothers, neighbours, teachers, communities, stories, places \u2013 and their writing reveals as much about the author as the subject they address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As interesting and diverse as these conceptions are, it is the points of commonality that I found most interesting. Many of those who find family outside the home are immigrants and refugees, perhaps not surprising in situations where, as Ruby Hamad writes in \u2018A Tempe Tale\u2019, parents stuck in fight-or-flight mode do not have the emotional or mental bandwidth to recognise their children\u2019s needs. Others are left in an interstitial space, suspended between two countries, neither of which is fully home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For Aboriginal authors Daniel James and Daniel Browning, connections flow through the land, while for J.P. Pomare, the sole M\u0101ori contributor, it is story itself: <em>\u201cyour culture is spoken, your culture is sound\u2026we all believe in things that never happened but are true nonetheless. And, more importantly, we build our <\/em><em>we build our identity on the foundations of these stories\u201d<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliana Gougoulls and Ian See (Eds) Penguin Random House Otago Daily Times, July 8th 2023 The stories in this Australian collection explore the complicated and multifaceted nature of family, both natal and created. For each of these writers the word has a different meaning \u2013 mothers, grandmothers, neighbours, teachers, communities, stories, places \u2013 and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,349,380,368,18],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-428","tag-anthology","tag-essays","tag-non-fiction","tag-odt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}