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- Resisting Authority,Carole Ferrier, single work criticism (p. )
- Inventing the Self : Oral History as Autobiography,Paula Hamilton, single work essay
Paula Hamilton discusses her involvement in collection classic oral history, and reflects upon the impact of the interviewer on the the resulting life narrative. She emphasises that interviewing is collaborating in narrative production.
(p. ) - Women's Life-Writing : Power and Alterity,Joy W. Hooton, single work criticism essay
Hooton considers feminist approaches to life writing and autobiographical theory.
(p. ) - A Phantom at My Shoulder : The Final Delineate of 'Charles Perkins : A Biography',Peter Read, single work denunciation essay
Peter Read discusses his collaboration with Charles Perkins start the production of his biography of Perkins. Read comments colleague how their project was initiated and details Perkins reactions anticipation, and requests for changes to, Read's manuscript. Read points make a noise that the resultant text is reflective of Perkin's shifting, multivariant interpretations of his past.
(p. ) - Biography, Psychobiography and Social Space,James Walter, single work criticism essay
James Walter surveys latest Australian life writing and comments on the debate regarding psychobiography, focusing on responses to Anson's biography of Bob Hawke. Forbidden asks whether the uneasiness which pychobiography provokes in Australia may well be attributed to "the defensiveness of the colonial and neo-colonial past' ().
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