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Alternative title:
Special Issue on Life Writing
Issue Details:
First known date:
2013...
no.
6
2013
of
Indian Journal of Australian Studies
est. 2008
IJAS
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* Contents derived from the 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Towards a Biography of Rita Huggins, single work biography (p. 9-21)
- Notes for 'Brass Bells', single work essay (p. 22-23)
- Brass Bells, single work prose (p. 24-27)
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Mothering the Self : A Study of Robert Dessaix's A Mother's Disgrace,
single work
criticism
(p. 28-36)V. Bharathi Harishanker looks at how Dessaix interweaves personal and social narratives in A Mother's Disgrace.
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Lending Them Voice : Writing the Community in Robyn Friend's We Who Are Not Here and Maitreyi Pushpa's Fighter Ki Dairy : Democracy Ka Dastavez,
single work
criticism
(p. 37-55)Pankaj K. Singh compares the life narrative of Tasmanian writer Robyn Friend to that of Hindi novelist Maitreyi Puspa.
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Memory as a Site of Pain, Resistance and Reclamation : A Study of Sally Morgan's My Place and Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke,
single work
criticism
(p. 56-75)Hem Raj Bansal compares the narrative of Indian Dalit and Australian Aboriginal biographical and autobiographical writing. The paper investigates My Place by Sally Morgan and The Prisons We Broke by Baby Kamble.
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Kick the Tin : Memory, Resistance and Reconciliation,
single work
criticism
(p. 76-89)In this paper, Vinod K. Chopra undertakes a narrative analysis of Doris Kartinyeri's Kick the Tin.
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Contesting the Colonial Myths : Life Writing of Aboriginal Women,
single work
criticism
(p. 90-106)'Autobiographies from the mainstream of exceptionally successful persons have been common for long, but of late the stories of 'the failures, to whose lot neither fortunes nor stirring adventures fell' (Bennet and Strauss) have generated tremendous interest in the academy and general readers. These writings are implicit or explicit political documents and campaigns demanding freedom, just, equality and land rights.' (90)
- Contours of Loss in the Testamonios about Disappeared Kashmiri Muslims and the Aboriginal Stolen Generation Testimonios, single work criticism (p. 107-118)
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Reclaiming Identity,
single work
review
— Review of Am I Black Enough for You? 2012 single work autobiography ; (p. 119-122)
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