Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledg

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Yes, you can access Indigenous Biography and Autobiography by Peter Read, Frances Peters-Little, Anna Haebich, Peter Read,Frances Peters-Little,Anna Haebich in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
ANU Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9781921536359
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Teaching and Researching
  6. From the margins to the mainstream: towards a history of published Indigenous Australian autobiographies and biographies
  7. A path of words: the reception of autobiographical Australian Aboriginal writing in Italy
  8. Ethical approaches to teaching Aboriginal culture and literature in Spain
  9. Multiple subjectivities: writing Duall’s life as social biography
  10. Oodgeroo Noonuccal: media snapshots of a controversial life
  11. Indigenous Storytelling
  12. ‘Never really heard of it’: the certificate of exemption and lost identity
  13. Biography as balancing act: life according to Joe and the rules of historical method
  14. The revelation of African culture in Long walk to freedom
  15. A Dalit and a First Nations Canadian speak of the women in their bones
  16. Principles and Protocols
  17. Consultation and critique: implementing cultural protocols in the reading of collaborative indigenous life writing
  18. Too much information: when the burden of trust paralyses representation
  19. Pauline McLeod: The Magpie who became a Swan – finding salvation in culture
  20. The dilemmas of knowing too much: writing In the desert – Jimmy Pike as a boy