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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography
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'Discussion and analysis of women's life histories through examination of work of Sally Morgan, Ruby Langford and Alice Nannup and themes of Aboriginality, race and gender and family and storytelling respectively; introductory chapter discusses the styles and themes of women's autobiography; includes a list of published autobiographies for further reading; suitable for secondary students.' (Publication summary)

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* Contents derived from the South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Sydney University in association with Oxford University Press , 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography : Introduction, Anne Brewster , single work criticism (p. 1-13)
Aboriginality and Sally Morgan's `My Place', Anne Brewster , single work criticism

Examines the issue of Aboriginality in relation to Sally Morgan in the light of some previous challenges to her 'authenticity', and identifies the sites at which Morgan claims difference. The author argues that Aboriginality is 'a concept of identity politics which is developed for strategic and political purposes such as marking out difference. It is contingent and historical' (27). She stresses the importance of revisiting the past in the process of understanding Aboriginality, because of the 'different histories', and the importance of acknowledging the violence indigenous people have experienced in the colonial encounter, and of the continuity and difference of contemporary Aboriginal culture.

 (p. 14-29)
Issues of Race and Gender in Ruby Langford's `Don't Take Your Love to Town', Anne Brewster , single work criticism (p. 30-45)
Family and Storytelling in Alice Nannup's `When the Pelican Laughed', Anne Brewster , single work criticism (p. 46-56)
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Untitled Chris Watson , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 3 1998; (p. 328-332)
— Review of Masks, Tapestries, Journeys : Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones 1996 anthology essay criticism ; Helen Garner Kerryn Goldsworthy , 1996 single work criticism ; Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography Anne Brewster , 1996 selected work criticism
Untitled Chris Watson , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 3 1998; (p. 328-332)
— Review of Masks, Tapestries, Journeys : Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones 1996 anthology essay criticism ; Helen Garner Kerryn Goldsworthy , 1996 single work criticism ; Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography Anne Brewster , 1996 selected work criticism
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