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Michael Jacklin Michael Jacklin i(A71581 works by)
Born: Established: 1958 Halifax, Nova Scotia,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: Dec 1988
Heritage: Canadian
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Michael Jacklin left Canada in the mid-1980s to live in Guatemala and then Greece, before migrating to Australia in 1988. His tertiary education was completed at Deakin University, where he received his Bachelor of Letters (Honours), and his PhD. His research and writing focuses on multicultural and multilingual literatures, life writing, collaborative writing, and Indigenous literature. In 2007 he took up a research position at the University of Wollongong, contributing to the Australian Multicultural Writers research group of the AustLit database.

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y separately published work icon Cross Talk : Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing in Australia and Canada 2004 Z1351079 2004 single work thesis This thesis provides a comparative analysis of collaborative Indigenous life writing texts produced in Australia and Canada. Drawing on the large body of Indigenous life writing texts produced in both countries, the critical and theoretical literature surrounding these texts, and twenty-nine interviews conducted during the course of research with participants in Aboriginal and First Nations collaborative life writing, the author argues that literary criticism needs to take into account the co-operative basis of textual production as well as the constraining factors that shape the outcome of collaborative texts. Further, he argues for the importance of non-Indigenous critics acknowledging the centrality of Indigenous protocols in both the production and reception of collaborative Indigenous life writing. The thesis is based upon the premise that readers and producers of collaborative Indigenous life writing texts can and should talk to each other and that each group can benefit from such cross talk.
2005 winner Isi Leibler Prize  .
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