Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Travel Memoir and Australia : From Twain to Tracks and the Present Day
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'Ben Stubbs' chapter demonstrates the new depths possible within hy-brid travel memoir. He looks at its evolution from works by Mark Twain to Robyn Davidson and Don Watson, tracing the progression of the genre from Twain's self-centered imperialism to Davidson and Watson's cultural self-awareness.'

Source: Introduction, p.7

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    y separately published work icon Mediating Memory : Tracing the Limits of Memoir Bunty Avieson (editor), Fiona Giles (editor), Sue Joseph (editor), London : Routledge , 2017 13603154 2017 anthology criticism

    'The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. The Literature of Remembering: Tracing the Limits of Memoir [sic] challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provide a thorough and cutting-edge examination of memoir through the lenses of ethics, practice and innovation. By investigating memoir across cultural boundaries, in its various guises, and tracing its limits, the editors convincingly demonstrate the plurality of ways in which memoir is helping us make sense of who we are, who we were and the influences that shape us along the way.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    London : Routledge , 2017
    pg. 192-204
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