'Soil Is a Toil Needing All to Recoil': Lionel Fogarty, Andrew Forrest, and the Settler-Colonial Georgic.

The article discusses Lionel Fogarty's experimental poetry as a response to current injustices suffered by Aboriginal people. It reports it offers to examine Fogarty's poem 'No Cites Like the Cites Hum In' as a type of judicial and literary intervention in the face of settler lawmaking. It challenge...

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Publicado en:Australian Literary Studies Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25
Autor principal: Kohinga, Kyle
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Australian Literary Studies 2023
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Sumario:The article discusses Lionel Fogarty's experimental poetry as a response to current injustices suffered by Aboriginal people. It reports it offers to examine Fogarty's poem 'No Cites Like the Cites Hum In' as a type of judicial and literary intervention in the face of settler lawmaking. It challenges settler poeticization of toil and its impact on Aboriginal land and bodies, emphasizing the interdependence of settler law, time, and labor regimes in undermining Aboriginal political imaginaries.