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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462370903321

Autore

Mansfield Stephen <1977->

Titolo

Australian patriography : how sons write fathers in contemporary life writing / / Stephen Mansfield [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-85728-340-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Australian humanities research series

Disciplina

820.9/994

Soggetti

Australian literature - History and criticism

Fathers in literature

Fathers and sons - Australia

Autobiography - Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Challenging authority -- pt. II. Memorialising self-denial -- pt. III. Performing masculinity.

Sommario/riassunto

The Son’s Book of the Father, as Richard Freadman termed it, is a rich field of relational autobiography, offering a unique set of tensions and insights into modes of masculinity, notions of identity and the ethics of representing another’s life in writing one’s own. [NP] This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers places an emerging sub-genre within its literary ancestry and its contemporary milieu. Providing compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others, this is the first study of its kind within Australian literature.