AustLit

'Autobiographies by Aboriginal Women writers have gradually emerged for almost three decades now. Varied and interesting experiments are visible in the life-writing form by Aboriginal writers. In an attempt to write accounts of their own life and experiences, Aboriginal writers have employed different narrative techniques and methods. This chapter is a case study of life narratives by two contemporary Aboriginal women writers Jackie Huggins (Auntie Rita) and Jeanine Leane (Purple Threads.) The focus is on the different methods of writing while “recalling the past”. Interestingly, these narratives create “matriarchal spaces” of expression being written by women who are recalling either their mother’s experiences or Aunties’ stories. The chapter makes an attempt to relocate this idea of history from a feminist perspective.'

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'Comparative Literature, as a discipline, opens up possibilities of establishing connections between what might seem to be apparently diverse and far-fetched. These connections make sense if they are understood in context of the contemporary concern with plurality and diversity, both cultural and linguistic, yet also remain conscious of certain similarities encountered at several points of contact. The present paper is an attempt to underline certain similarities of which comparison is made possible between two different genres in different centuries and across different continents. The main focus here is on establishing a comparison between Patrick White's The Tree of Man and the scriptural text Guru Granth Sahib. ' (Introduction)