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The story of a refugee's arrival in Australia by boat.
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Editor's note: "Caged birds know greater freedom than I." (Anonymous refugee residing and waiting in Indonesia for refugee status in Australia, 2002).
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Refugee Life Writing in Australia : Testimonios by Iranians
2014
single work
— Appears in: Postcolonial Text , vol. 9 no. 2 2014; This paper examines a growing trend of contemporary Australian writing, life narrations by refugees, along the genre of testimonio. It uses the example of Iranian writings, as Iranians compose the majority of asylum-seekers in Australia today. It questions the voice refugee writers are given by the Australian writers who help them to write or publish their life stories and ask how their writings redefine the genre of testimonio, used to tell the history of contemporary traumatic migrations to Australia. [Author's abstract] -
In Short : Fiction
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 July 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of Nine Letters Long 2005 single work novel ; Moza's Story, an Ashmore Reef Account : Based on a True Story 2005 single work autobiography
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In Short : Fiction
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 July 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of Nine Letters Long 2005 single work novel ; Moza's Story, an Ashmore Reef Account : Based on a True Story 2005 single work autobiography -
Refugee Life Writing in Australia : Testimonios by Iranians
2014
single work
— Appears in: Postcolonial Text , vol. 9 no. 2 2014; This paper examines a growing trend of contemporary Australian writing, life narrations by refugees, along the genre of testimonio. It uses the example of Iranian writings, as Iranians compose the majority of asylum-seekers in Australia today. It questions the voice refugee writers are given by the Australian writers who help them to write or publish their life stories and ask how their writings redefine the genre of testimonio, used to tell the history of contemporary traumatic migrations to Australia. [Author's abstract]
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cIran,cMiddle East, Asia,
- Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Australian External Territories,
- Western Australia,
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