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'This paper examines ‘archival poetics’ in contemporary history and fiction writing, with a focus on Mark McKenna’s An eye for eternity: The life of Manning Clark, Megan Marshall’s Margaret Fuller: A new American life and Kim Scott’s Benang, from the heart. It investigates the ways in which the authors of these works move away from the forensic imaginary embodied in a certain kind of historiography’s approach to the archive, to create a more personal, powerful and situated kind of history writing. It argues that these works suggest that history is less about the sublime chaos of the past – which cannot be narrated without duplicity, damage or violence – than how we engage the past, which is, on reflection, an entirely different thing.' (Publication summary)
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Archival Poetics : Writing History from the Fragments
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Subjects:
- Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel
- 'The First White Man Born' : Miscegenation and Identity in Kim Scott's Benang 2004 single work criticism
- Looking for Blackfellas' Point : An Australian History of Place 2002 single work non-fiction
- An Eye for Eternity : The Life of Manning Clark 2011 single work biography
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