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Alternative title: Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... vol. 17 no. 1 2020 of Life Writing est. 2004 Life Writing
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
[Review] The Art of Disappearing, Kate Douglas , single work review
— Review of The Art of Disappearing Elisabeth Hanscombe , 2017 single work autobiography ;

'I was four years old and it felt wrong that my father should see himself as evil. Although his moods and formality frightened me, I had plans at that time to marry someone just like him, a tall Dutchman with fair hair and blue eyes would could speak several languages, build houses and drive a motor bike (6).' (Introduction)

 (p. 139-141)
[Review] No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison B, Christina Houen , single work review
— Review of No Friend but the Mountains : Writing From Manus Prison Behrouz Boochani , Omid Tofighian (translator), 2018 selected work prose ;
'Behrouz Boochani’s memoir of his arrival at Christmas Island as an asylum seeker, and his subsequent indefinite incarceration on Manus Island, is a miracle of survival and of testimony. To tell the unthinkable in impossible circumstances is an extraordinary act of courage and truth-telling. It is a searing, confronting, powerful testimony of indefinite detention and systematic torture. More than that, it is a work of resistance in the genre of decolonial literature,1 a significant piece of prison literature, and a scorching critique of refugee policies here in Australia, and by extension, globally.' (Introduction)
 (p. 149-152)
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