Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourse
This article is concerned with the different genre applications to Indigenous Australian autobiographies. Scholarship has not employed a consistent genre designation for this literature. This article identifies the reasons for a particular genre choice in scholarship and draws on interviews with sch...
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doaj-59062715f1384f11ae59d1f1b66e959b2021-03-02T07:05:49ZdeuZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)Acta Neophilologica0567-784X2350-417X2011-12-01441-210.4312/an.44.1-2.69-792461Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourseOliver HaagThis article is concerned with the different genre applications to Indigenous Australian autobiographies. Scholarship has not employed a consistent genre designation for this literature. This article identifies the reasons for a particular genre choice in scholarship and draws on interviews with scholars and authors to test their motivation for either adopting or rejecting the term 'autobiography' for Indigenous life narratives.https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/2825Indigenous Australian autobiographieslife writinggenrescholarly discourse |
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Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourse |
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Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourse |
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Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourse |
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Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourse |
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Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) |
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Acta Neophilologica |
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0567-784X 2350-417X |
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2011-12-01 |
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This article is concerned with the different genre applications to Indigenous Australian autobiographies. Scholarship has not employed a consistent genre designation for this literature. This article identifies the reasons for a particular genre choice in scholarship and draws on interviews with scholars and authors to test their motivation for either adopting or rejecting the term 'autobiography' for Indigenous life narratives. |
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Indigenous Australian autobiographies life writing genre scholarly discourse |
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