Poetry
Dear Mum and Dad contemporary
The archive of war speaks through a politics of selective visibility: as language recedes into whiteness, the surviving words become fragments of an ideological and emotional apparatus through which private memory, imperial allegiance, and the moral economy of sacrifice are made legible. By exposing the violence of erasure as an aesthetic operation, the work interrogates the historical production of remembrance itself, asking whose voices remain audible, whose suffering is rendered peripheral, and how the intimate correspondence of individuals becomes entangled in the grand narratives of empire and war.
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