An tSaimbia

Publication Instance Details #545

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of the poem wishes to send a postcard home, but is frustrated by the images he sees on the postcards, portraying a smile upon the face of destitution. This is likely in reference to the poverty and suffering witnessed by the speaker in Zambia, and he feels uncomfortable sending such a false image home to Ireland as a representation of the country. He also acknowledges that the country's destitution is in large part due to the colonial plunder perpetrated by white colonists.