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Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography »

Authors: David McCooey
ISBN-13: 9780521567909, ISBN-10: 0521567904
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

An important contribution to our understanding of autobiography, its history and the Australian experience.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Autobiography and History	5
2	Beginnings: Histories and Families	26
3	Beginnings and Myth	48
4	Parents, Crisis and Education	70
5	The Hidden Past and Personal History	91
6	Autobiographies of Displacement	109
7	The Individual and Place	137
8	Fiction and Autobiography	164
	Conclusion	191
	Notes	202
	Select Bibliography	220
	Index	232