‘Black pops the populations’: Poetic Demophony and Settler-Colonial Bureaucracy in Lionel Fogarty
摘要
In this chapter, Kyle Kohinga repositions Fogarty’s poetic resistance to settler-colonialism in the context of the routinised bureaucratic practices by which the settler-colonial state produces Aboriginal Australians as an object for and of governance. Kohinga asks how Fogarty’s poetry reconfigures prior traditions of activist poetry represented by Oodgeroo and Kevin Gilbert to confront the non-dialogic paternalism that defines a current state of Aboriginal affairs. In so doing, he reveals that Fogarty not only imitates the autopoetic self-production of bureaucratic forms through the form of a simulated address but enables a spectral command over the political and historical fates of settler lawmaking.