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The citation of injury: regarding the exceptional body

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dc.contributor.authorCox, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:54:55Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T10:36:03Z
dc.description.abstractAustralia's instrumentalisation of non-citizen bodies via the practice of extrajudicial immigration detention produces a context for abjection in the form of hunger strikes and self-mutilation. This article examines the representation of these self-injuries in the poems 'Asylum' by Mehmet al Assad (2002) and 'Make a whistle from my throat' by an anonymous Baxter detainee (2005); Shahin Shafaei's solo play Refugitive (2002-04); solidarity fasts by Australian activists (2002-04); and Mike Parr's performance installation Close the Concentration Camps (2002). While presenting Australian audiences with the possibility for imaginative encounter with injured bodies that seem immutably 'other', these works also offer something more troubling, but potentially transforming: a context for recognition of proximity (both ethical and political) to the sovereign-produced position of exception.
dc.identifier.issn1444-3058
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/59858
dc.publisherUniversity of Queensland Press
dc.sourceJournal of Australian Studies
dc.subjectKeywords: Asylum seekers; Embodiment; Performance; Poetry; Refugees; Self-injury
dc.titleThe citation of injury: regarding the exceptional body
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage472
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage459
local.contributor.affiliationCox, Emma, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidCox, Emma, u4251827
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200211 - Postcolonial Studies
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4105084xPUB511
local.identifier.citationvolume33
local.identifier.doi10.1080/14443050903308683
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-71149104321
local.type.statusPublished Version

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