Artful 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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"Australian autobiography takes many forms and calls on many different strategies, all of which McCooey sets forth cogently in a jargon-free style that is tight and bright with all the fat squeezed out." Choice
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Artful Histories is an account of modern Australian autobiography that radically revises theories of autobiography and discusses a broad range of popular and literary texts. It contributes to our understanding of autobiography, the genre's history in Australia, and the Australian experience.
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solid bluestone foundations, ethnic minority writing, other autobiographers, migrant literature, autobiographical practice, autobiographical process, personal beginning, hidden past, narrative lives, autobiographical impulse, modern autobiography, literary autobiography, narrative life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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solid bluestone foundations, ethnic minority writing, other autobiographers, migrant literature, autobiographical practice, autobiographical process, personal beginning, hidden past, narrative lives, autobiographical impulse, modern autobiography, literary autobiography, narrative life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hear the Train Blow, The Paradise Tree, Hal Porter, Great War, Serpent's Tooth, World War, Cast-Iron Balcony, Sally Morgan, Martin Boyd, David Malouf, Jill Ker Conway, The Paper Chase, Clive James, Langton Quartet, Manning Clark, Mapping the Paddocks, More Please, The Boy Adeodatus, Bellair Street, Bernard Smith, Country Childhood, Donald Home, Ruby Langford, Charmian Clift, House of Trees New!
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- Flaws in the Glass Pb (Penguin Twentieth-Century Clas) by Patrick White on 15 pages
- Paper Chase by Hal Porter on 14 pages
- The Boy Adeodatus: The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard by Bernard Smith on 10 pages
- Memories of a Country Childhood by Judith Wallace on 8 pages
- True North: A Memoir by Jill Ker Conway on 7 pages
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