Vanamali Hermans Vanamali Hermans i(20735313 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri ; Irish ; Flemish
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1 A Haunting on the Ward i "Antiseptic rips nose, hangs heavy on the senses", Vanamali Hermans , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 239 2020; (p. 7-8)
1 On Hospitals Vanamali Hermans , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 239 2020; (p. 3-7)

'Frantz Fanon spent much of his life in hospitals, as a worker, writer, and patient. Much of Fanon’s work examined hospitals as institutions of social control, medicalising criminality, and exercising colonial powers. To Fanon, ‘colonialism in its essence was already taking on the aspect of a fertile purveyor for psychiatric hospitals’ –­ creating the social conditions that enabled the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, and in turn, the need for institutions capable of housing and controlling the ‘sick’.' (Introduction)
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