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The Biographer’s Dilemma : What Have You Done with My Life?
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 1 2009;'Recent decades have seen the rise of a modern publishing phenomenon: mass public participation in the production and consumption of various forms of Life Writing.
Biography has been "democratised". The growth and diversity in the informal production of Biography underlines the confidence with which it is produced, effectually a statement that "my life is worth telling too." Similarly the commercially produced biographical product is subject to media and public scrutiny as never before, dissected for factuality and fairness.
There is an expectation that a subject, or a subject‟s friends, enemies, or relatives, have a right of reply to the printed word. The challenge to academics and biographers then, is to admit that the authorial voice is not tenured, and that a greater collaborative approach must be taken which shares power over the writing of a life.' (Author's abstract)
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Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Aumla , May no. 91 1999; (p. 120-122)
— Review of Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism ; National Fictions : Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative 1986 single work criticism -
Untitled
1998
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review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , October vol. 29 no. 111 1998; (p. 388-390)
— Review of Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism -
Untitled
1997
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review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 12 no. 2 1997; (p. 131-133)
— Review of Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 52 1997; (p. 168-169)
— Review of Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism
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The Rise of Australian Autobiography
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , Autumn vol. 9 no. 1 1997; (p. 128-132)
— Review of Autographs : Contemporary Australian Autobiography 1996 anthology autobiography extract ; Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 1 1997; (p. 103-105)
— Review of Autographs : Contemporary Australian Autobiography 1996 anthology autobiography extract ; Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism ; The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia 1996 single work criticism -
Finding Self While Waiting to Exile
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 11 no. 2 1997; (p. 137-138)
— Review of The Tomis Complex : Exile and Eros in Australian Literature 1996 single work criticism ; Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism -
A Writer's Testimony
1996
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 October 1996; (p. 9)
— Review of Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism -
Autobiography as Surrogate Memory
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 July 1996; (p. C8)
— Review of Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography 1996 single work criticism -
The Biographer’s Dilemma : What Have You Done with My Life?
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 1 2009;'Recent decades have seen the rise of a modern publishing phenomenon: mass public participation in the production and consumption of various forms of Life Writing.
Biography has been "democratised". The growth and diversity in the informal production of Biography underlines the confidence with which it is produced, effectually a statement that "my life is worth telling too." Similarly the commercially produced biographical product is subject to media and public scrutiny as never before, dissected for factuality and fairness.
There is an expectation that a subject, or a subject‟s friends, enemies, or relatives, have a right of reply to the printed word. The challenge to academics and biographers then, is to admit that the authorial voice is not tenured, and that a greater collaborative approach must be taken which shares power over the writing of a life.' (Author's abstract)
Awards
- Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography
- Day of My Delight : An Anglo-Australian Memoir 1965 single work autobiography
- The Road from Coorain 1989 single work autobiography
- My Place 1987 single work autobiography
- The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography
- Inside Outside : Life Between Two Worlds 1992 single work autobiography
- Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait 1981 single work autobiography
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