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标题：Reading Kevin Gilbert: Nuclear Weaponry, Media Ecologies and a Community of Memory
其他标题：Reading Kevin Gilbert: Nuclear Weaponry, Media Ecologies and a Community of Memory
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作者：Matthew Hall
期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2018
卷号：2
期号：18
页码：1-10
语种：English
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：Situating the poems ‘Won’t You Daddy?’ and ‘Seeds of Thought’ against Gilbert’s contribution to Imagining the Real, this essay will critique nuclear threats to Country as intertwined with racial power-structures, and as dependent upon the same genocidal logic as Australian colonisation. The nuclear imaginary, as identified by Gilbert, corresponds to a death event which is informed by and itself substantiates relations of subjugation for Indigenous people. It is the contention of this paper that the thematic focus on nuclear weaponry and the nuclear imaginary as present in Kevin Gilbert’s poetry—as well as his contemporary, Kath Walker—has contributed to a poetry-based, media ecology through which nuclear threats to Country are an inherited focus of Australian Indigenous poetry.
关键词：Kevin Gilbert;nuclear;poetry;media ecologies