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Archival Poetics
Paperback Edition: 1
Archival-Poetics is an embodied reckoning with the States colonial archive and those traumatic, contested and buried episodes of history that inevitably return to haunt; a way of knowing and being in the world that carries us lovingly back and forward and back again toward something else restorative/ transformed/ honouring/ just. Family records at the heart of this work highlight policy measures targeting Aboriginal girls for removal into indentured domestic labour, and trigger questions on surveillance, representation and agency. This is a shared story; a decolonising project through poetic refusal, resistance and memory-making. It is our memory in the blood, and it does not always flow easily.
Pages : 112
Publisher : Vagabond Press
Publication date : 2019
Subjects: Institute, Poetry, University of Auckland, University of Auckland - Semester 1, Arts - Semester 1, ENGLISH 769 - Representing Imagining