Aboriginal Autobiographical Writings

Jack Davis, Ruby Langford & Sally Morgan

Sigrid Ruppe-Senn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2008
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
978-3-639-05626-6 (ISBN)

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This book analyses three autobiographical works, namely "ABoy's Life" by Jack Davis, "Don't Take Your Love to Town" by RubyLangford and "My Place" by Sally Morgan, with particular regard toAustralia's controversial history and various features of theautobiographical genre. Within this context the book outlinesanswers to three crucial questions: Why are accounts of Indigenouspeople's lives becoming increasingly important in Australia? Whichpossibilities and problems arise when writing one's autobiography?How do Indigenous writers deal with the history of colonization onthe fifth continent? This book and its examination of theabove-mentioned autobiographies is intended to give students of theAboriginal Australian culture an accurate account of how life as anIndigenous person among an Anglo-Australian society was in the pastand still is now.

Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Schlagworte	Aborigines • Australien
ISBN-10	3-639-05626-4 / 3639056264
ISBN-13	978-3-639-05626-6 / 9783639056266
Zustand	Neuware