Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521567904
ISBN-13
9780521567909
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1996
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
365 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.40 cms
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AustraliaEnglishAutobiography: generalAutobiography: generalLiterary studies: general
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Artful Histories is an account of modern Australian autobiography that radically revises theories of autobiography and discusses a broad range of popular and literary texts. It contributes to our understanding of autobiography, the genre's history in Australia, and the Australian experience.
Artful Histories is an account of modern Australian autobiography that radically revises theories of autobiography and discusses a remarkably broad range of popular and literary texts written over a period of three decades. In his challenge to post-structuralist theories of autobiography, particularly in terms of autobiography's relationship with fiction and history, David McCooey analyses the nature of the self, the question of intent and the role of narrative. He discusses the ways in which the autobiographer makes sense of his or her life through a developing but continuous awareness of the narrative quality of experience. The book explores themes around the mythology of childhood, education, sexuality, the discovery of hidden histories, the trauma of displacement and death and, finally, the importance of place in the Australian imagination.
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