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This work, which was a finalist in the 1988 Vogel Award, recalls the author's itinerant early life as a tap dancer with her jazz drummer father on the streets of New York and New Orleans.
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Although published in reverse chronological order, Dreamtime Alice is the sequel to Velocity.
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Dedication: For my sister, Lisa, with love and gratitude
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Country and Lives : Australian Biography and Its History
2015
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criticism
— Appears in: Cercles , no. 35 2015; 'There have been attempts to relate national characteristics “by reference to climate, habitat and soil and investing the collective subject with psychological attributes” for over two millennia. More recently historians of modern nationalism developed elaborate typologies often citing Martin Heidegger’s arguments that “the being of the human finds its essence in the being of place — the belonging together of being and topos” [MALPAS 2012 : 5-6]. And yet the challenge to the ontological connection between self and place, what Jeff Malpas describes as the “topological analysis of self and identity”, has a long philosophical tradition, too. This debate over experience, biography and nation has implications for historians who have raised empirical questions about the development of collective sensibilities over time among recent emigrant peoples, their physical peculiarities, behaviourial quirks and emergent national character. In this paper I consider the role that biography writing played in the construction of an Australian national identity geared to what Pierre Nora famously termed as the “roman national”, or the collective discourse on the history of the nation and its place in the world. I argue that Australian historians played a significant role in the history of biograpy writing and, related to it, the debate over collective Australian identity.' (Introduction) -
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Joint Winners Show There's New Life in Story of Biography
2000
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 March 2000; (p. 10) -
An Artist, a Father, and Convention Dashed
2000
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 2000; (p. 3) -
Fusing Fact and Fiction
1999
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— Appears in: QWC News Magazine , March no. 72 1999; (p. 5)
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— Appears in: CrossLines
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Busker Bible Strikes a Chord
1998
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 February 1998; (p. 10)
— Review of Dreamtime Alice : A Memoir 1998 single work autobiography -
Dad, Me and All That Jazz
1998
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 February 1998; (p. 27)
— Review of Dreamtime Alice : A Memoir 1998 single work autobiography -
If Dad Could See Me Now
1998
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 March 1998; (p. 11)
— Review of Dreamtime Alice : A Memoir 1998 single work autobiography -
Cha-Cha Child
1998
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review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , March vol. 3 no. 2 1998; (p. 22)
— Review of Dreamtime Alice : A Memoir 1998 single work autobiography -
Alice in Drummer Land
1998
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— Appears in: The Age , 7 February 1998; (p. 3) -
A Novel Form of Truthfulness
1998
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— Appears in: The Age , 15 August 1998; (p. 3) -
Riveting Memoir of Two Buskers
1998
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 18 January 1998; (p. 22) -
Dance of the Vagabond
1998
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biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 January 1998; (p. 3) -
An Artist, a Father, and Convention Dashed
2000
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 2000; (p. 3)
Awards
- 2000 joint winner National Biography Award
- 1998 winner New England (USA) Booksellers' Association Discovery Award
- 1998 winner The TDK Australian Audio Book Awards — Unabridged Non-Fiction
Last amended 11 Jun 2020 15:02:52
Subjects:
- Urban,
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New York (City),
New York (State),
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
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New Orleans,
Louisiana,
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
- 1980s
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