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In the recent past, collection of letters exchanged between asylum seekers held as part of the Pacific Solution and their advocates on the Australian mainland have begun to enter the archives and become available to scholarly work. This article considers the Burnside/Durham collection of letters from Nauru recently acquired as part of the Fryer collection at the University of Queensland. It uses Stanley's concept of the epistolarium to examine how the letter operates as a particularly appropriate medium for these narratives of grief and loss; how they mediate processes of testimony and witnessing; and how Durham's art work, included in the collection, speaks to the situation of the second person.
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Letters from Nauru
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cNauru,cSouth Pacific, Pacific Region,
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