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Media coverage
Title Points of View - Review of Vociferate Media name/outlet Westerly Country/Territory Australia Date 18/11/21 Description Titles provide the focus for reading a book, and with Emily Sun’s first
full-length collection of poetry, Vociferate|詠, this is emphatically the
case. Sun’s book examines and excoriates demeaning social structures,
and the hypocrisy surrounding denial of gender oppression, and denials
of cultural insensitivity and systemic racism. It refers to the Confucian
notion of the ‘ideal woman’ as occupying an inferior position to men—
the three obediences and four virtues, and the irony of not only such a
tradition but all the Western equivalences that persist while purporting
not to do the same. The position of the viewer and subject experiencing
this abuse and offence is vital to understanding the verbal and intellectual
range of these poems. As geographies of encountering injustice shift, the
same patterns are exposed: and who will experience the full force of this
systemic and social opprobrium, and to what degree.URL https://westerlymag.com.au Persons Emily Sun
Keywords
- Review
- Poetry
- Poetry Review
- Literature
- Australian Literature