Assimilation

Publication Instance Details #2969

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
Yes	No	No	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language) State Violence
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in Australia (pre 20th century)
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish Irish
Original Poem	An Dubh ina Gheal
Original Author	Louis de Paor
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	Translated from the Irish by de Paor, Anderson, Jenkinson, O'Donoghue. Colonial violence against Aboriginal Australian children and families. While the Australian context is not named in the poem itself, it refers to a particular instance of the practice of taking Aboriginal children away from their parents, and 'educating' them in institutions, regardless of the wishes of their family. These stolen children are usually known as 'The Stolen Generations'. The father in this poem suffers physical violence at the hands of the police, who come to take his son. The suffering of his son is replicated on the face of the very earth itself.