Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography
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...
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An important contribution to our understanding of autobiography, its history and the Australian experience.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Autobiography and History52Beginnings: Histories and Families263Beginnings and Myth484Parents, Crisis and Education705The Hidden Past and Personal History916Autobiographies of Displacement1097The Individual and Place1378Fiction and Autobiography164Conclusion191Notes202Select Bibliography220Index232
