Real Fake White Dirt

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In her first attempt to pin tongue to page, Jess Holly Bates has penned an unsettling commentary on the quality of whiteness in New Zealand. It is a gauntlet of words thrown at her readers’ feet—at times a white-eyed challenge, at others an invitation to engage. Picking its way through colonialism in both past and present form, REAL FAKE WHITE DIRT is a winking travelogue through the lives of some painfully recognizable characters. Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-29003-0 Category: Jess Holly Bates

In her first attempt to pin tongue to page, Jess Holly Bates has penned an unsettling commentary on the quality of whiteness in New Zealand. It is a gauntlet of words thrown at her readers’ feet—at times a white-eyed challenge, at others an invitation to engage. Picking its way through colonialism in both past and present form, REAL FAKE WHITE DIRT is a winking travelogue through the lives of some painfully recognizable characters.

Jess Holly Bates is a Pākehā performance poet,...