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White window shopping
This poem is an attempt to critique easy acts of identification by non-Indigenous Australians with the Indigenous victims of the pervasive and frequently violent forces of racism. It represents this as 'window shopping': attempting to inscribe the paradox of all acts of representation as potentially cynical commodification. And yet... again and again, ways have to be attempted because silence is a greater killing force. The poem commemorates the racist killing of Louis St John Johnson on the 4th January 1992.
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Title of book
Contemporary Australian poetryPagination
96 - 97Publisher
Puncher & WattmannPlace of publication
Glebe, N.S.W.Start date
1992-01-01End date
1993-09-15Material type
poetryResource type
otherISBN-13
9781922186935Language
engPublication classification
X Not reportable; J3 PoemsCopyright notice
2016, Puncher & WattmannUsage metrics
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