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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Main Author:	Oliver Haag
Format:	Article
Language:	deu
Published:	Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2011-12-01
Series:	Acta Neophilologica
Subjects:	Indigenous Australian autobiographies life writing genre scholarly discourse
Online Access:	https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/2825

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series	Acta Neophilologica
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description	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.
topic	Indigenous Australian autobiographies life writing genre scholarly discourse
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Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourse

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