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Record Nr.

UNISA996217062103316

Autore

Read Peter

Titolo

Indigenous biography and autobiography / / Peter Read, Frances Peters-Little and Anna Haebich (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : ANU Press, 2008

Canberra, Australia : , : ANU E Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-921536-35-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations, tables; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Aboriginal history monograph ; ; 17

Disciplina

305.89915

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community demand not to write anything at all. The collection also presents some state-of-the-art issues in teaching Indigenous Studies based on auto/biography in Austria, Spain and Italy.