In this chapter, Yugembeh writer and editor Arlie Alizzi analyses expressions of accusation, hatred, madness, racism, misogyny, jealousy, and other unpleasant affective registers staged by Fogarty’s poetry. Following Klee’s critiques of the limits of white Australian readings of Fogarty, Alizzi returns and re-reads moments of unpleasantness and hatred in Fogarty’s work. Alizzi analyses these demonstrations against the grain of the ‘decolonial’ reading, a methodology that examines the poetry by its usefulness as a tool for decolonisation. By applying a decolonial reading, Alizzi argues that Fogarty weaponises various accusations to unsettle the epistemic dynamics of whiteness. In so doing, Alizzi presents that Fogarty’s work comes to hold meaning through its use as a decolonial tool applied to white minds. Therefore, building on Klee’s attempt to recover Fogarty’s poetic strategy from this framework of protest and disruption, Alizzi develops the aim of closely examining specific performances of unpleasantness.

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‘Please Don’t Take Offence’: Cursing, Swearing, and Interpretations of the Work of Lionel Fogarty

  • Arlie Alizzi

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In this chapter, Yugembeh writer and editor Arlie Alizzi analyses expressions of accusation, hatred, madness, racism, misogyny, jealousy, and other unpleasant affective registers staged by Fogarty’s poetry. Following Klee’s critiques of the limits of white Australian readings of Fogarty, Alizzi returns and re-reads moments of unpleasantness and hatred in Fogarty’s work. Alizzi analyses these demonstrations against the grain of the ‘decolonial’ reading, a methodology that examines the poetry by its usefulness as a tool for decolonisation. By applying a decolonial reading, Alizzi argues that Fogarty weaponises various accusations to unsettle the epistemic dynamics of whiteness. In so doing, Alizzi presents that Fogarty’s work comes to hold meaning through its use as a decolonial tool applied to white minds. Therefore, building on Klee’s attempt to recover Fogarty’s poetic strategy from this framework of protest and disruption, Alizzi develops the aim of closely examining specific performances of unpleasantness.