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This essay makes use of the work of semioticians such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag to discuss William Yang's Sadness (1996). Caluya chooses not to interpret Sadness as an autobiography. He prefers to mobilise the realism of photographic and anecdotal detail in what he terms 'an aesthetics of simplicity', ultimately reframing the work through tropes of loss and melancholia and considering how it intervenes 'in the ethics and politics of grief as an art work' (paraphrased from author's abstract).

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83-100 The Aesthetics of Simplicity: Yang's Sadness and the Melancholic Communitysmall AustLit logo Journal of Intercultural Studies
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  • Sadness William Yang , 1996 single work autobiography
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