Artful Histories: Modern Australian AutobiographyArtful Histories is an account of modern Australian autobiography that radically revises theories of autobiography and discusses a remarkably broad range of popular and literary texts written over a period of three decades. In his challenge to post-structuralist theories of autobiography, particularly in terms of autobiography's relationship with fiction and history, David McCooey analyses the nature of the self, the question of intent and the role of narrative. He discusses the ways in which the autobiographer makes sense of his or her life through a developing but continuous awareness of the narrative quality of experience. The book explores themes around the mythology of childhood, education, sexuality, the discovery of hidden histories, the trauma of displacement and death and, finally, the importance of place in the Australian imagination. |
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... Memories of an Australian Girlhood ( 1983 ) Penguin Books Australia Ltd .; Sneja Gunew , Framing Marginality : Multicultural Literary Studies ( 1994 ) Melbourne University Press ; by permission of the author Dorothy Hewett , Wild Card ...
... Memories of an Australian Girlhood ( 1983 ) Penguin Books Australia Ltd .; Sneja Gunew , Framing Marginality : Multicultural Literary Studies ( 1994 ) Melbourne University Press ; by permission of the author Dorothy Hewett , Wild Card ...
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... Memories of a Country Childhood , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1977 ; Mary Warnock , Memory ( 1987 ) Faber & Faber Ltd .; Julia Watson , " Towards an Anti - Metaphysics of Autobiography ' in Robert Folkenflik , editor ...
... Memories of a Country Childhood , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1977 ; Mary Warnock , Memory ( 1987 ) Faber & Faber Ltd .; Julia Watson , " Towards an Anti - Metaphysics of Autobiography ' in Robert Folkenflik , editor ...
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Contents
Autobiography and History | 5 |
Beginnings Histories and Families | 26 |
Beginnings and Myth | 48 |
Parents Crisis and Education | 70 |
The Hidden Past and Personal History | 91 |
Autobiographies of Displacement | 109 |
The Individual and Place | 137 |
Fiction and Autobiography | 164 |
Conclusion | 191 |
Notes | 202 |
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