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'The article offers the authors' insight on the manifestation of race and racism in Australian poetry. Topics discussed include the reflection of racism and orientalism in conventional verse culture (CVC), the posted justification of the racist depictions of Black women in the book "Gone With the Wind" by poet Vanessa Place, and the suspected association of racism with mental illness.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Overland no. 222 Autumn 2016 11405601 2016 periodical issue

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         2016     pg. 83-91
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