International Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Global Context

ISBN-13: 9780415522540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 164 str.

Paul Longley Arthur

Opis

Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries.

Spis treści

Introduction Paul Longley Arthur  1. Tense and Tender Ties: Reflections on Lives Recovered from the Intimate Frontier of Empire and Slavery Cassandra Pybus  2. The Politics of Writing Convict Lives: Academic Research, State Archives and Family History Lucy Frost  3. The Murderer and His Victim: Tracing a Lost Convict of the Botany Bay Decision Emma Christopher  4. Narratives of Natural History: Recovering Lost Lineages in Margaret Levyns' Life-Writing Brett M. Bennett  5. The Theology of Materialism: Redeeming the Natural Religion of Robert Chambers and "Vestiges" Angela Smith  6. Fiction and Testimony in Don DeLillo’s "Falling Man" Jen Webb  7. Recovering Lives Through Art: Hidden Histories and Commemoration in the Works of Katsushige Nakahashi and Dadang Christanto Caroline Turner and Glen St John Barclay  8. Recovering Ocean Island Katerina Martina Teaiwa  9. Unearthing the Past: Dwikozy Revisited Paul Longley Arthur

O autorze

Paul Longley Arthur studied at the University of Western Australia and held research fellowships in Europe, North America and Australia before taking up the position of Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Australian National University.