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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.
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PhD thesis, Deakin University, 2004
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- 2005 winner Isi Leibler Prize .
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Subjects:
- Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs 1990 single work life story
- Auntie Rita 1994 single work biography
- Haunted by the Past 1999 single work autobiography
- My Place 1987 single work autobiography
- Wandjuk Marika : Life Story 1995 single work autobiography
- Nyibayarri : Kimberley Tracker 1995 single work autobiography
- The Two Worlds of Jimmie Barker : The Life of an Australian Aboriginal, 1900-1972 : As Told to Janet Mathews. 1977 single work autobiography
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