Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories
(Paperback, Revised 2016 edition)
Publishing Details
Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories
By (Author) Associate Professor Anne Brewster
Sydney University Press
Sydney University Press
1st July 2016
Revised 2016 edition
Australia
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
820.9492072
Physical Properties
Paperback
46
Width 148mm, Height 210mm, Spine 6mm
100g
Description
A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publication of Sally Morgan's My Place (1987), which became a bestseller. While some of the books of the first wave focused mainly (if not exclusively) on the author, Aboriginal women's life stories widened over time to include transgenerational histories of the family.
Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories is an important discussion of books that have shaped our understanding of contemporary Indigenous Australian literature. Anne Brewster provides an in-depth textual analysis of three key titles and situates them in relation to concepts of history, race, gender, family, storytelling and Aboriginality in modern Australia.
Looking back, we can recognise now what an extraordinary phenomenon these life stories are, and how they have changed understandings of Aboriginality and writing ... The return of this classic book in a new edition is a welcome reminder that Anne Brewster's careful, deeply respectful and informed approach to these writings is as necessary now as it ever was.
Professor Gillian Whitlock FAHA
Author Bio
Anne Brewster is associate professor in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales.
