{"product_id":"the-invisibility-exhibit-sachiko-murakami-9780889225794","title":"The Invisibility Exhibit","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese poems were written in the political and emotional wake of the \"Missing Women\" of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Although women had been going missing from the neighbourhood since the late 1970s, police efforts were not coordinated into a full-scale investigation until the issue was given widespread public visibility by Lori Culbert, Lindsay Kines and Kim Bolan's 2001 \"Missing Women\" series in the \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e. This media coverage, combined with the efforts of activists in political and cultural sectors, finally resulted in increased official investigative efforts, which have so far led to the arrest of Robert Pickton, on whose property the remains of twenty-seven of the sixty-eight listed women were found. In December 2007, Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder in what had become one the highest-profile criminal cases to take place in B.C.'s history; yet this is not the focus of this book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the title suggests, the concern of this project is an investigation of the troubled relationship between this specific marginalized neighbourhood, its \"invisible\" populations both past and present, and the wealthy, healthy city that surrounds it. These poems interrogate the comfortable distance from which the public consumes the sensationalist news story by turning their focus toward the normative audience, the equally invisible public. In the speaker's examination of this subject, assumptions and delineations of community, identity and ultimately citizenship are called into question. Projects such as Lincoln Clarkes' controversial Heroines photographic series and subsequent book (Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2002), news stories and even the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games circulate intertextually in this manuscript, while Pickton's trial is intentionally absent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIrritated by complacency, troubled by determinate narrative and the relationship between struggle and the artistic representation of struggle, Murakami is a poet bewildered by her city's indifference to the neglect of its inhabitants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sachiko Murakami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0889225796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889225794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 5.98w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist","brand":"Sachiko Murakami","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926775660799,"sku":"9780889225794","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8829df3f-47a2-43dd-a6db-26e3eb928365.jpg?v=1681084940","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-invisibility-exhibit-sachiko-murakami-9780889225794","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}