Auntie Rita
Canberra
:
Aboriginal Studies Press
,
1994
Z126649
1994
single work
biography
(taught in 9 units)
"Most people call me Auntie Rita, whites as well as Aboriginal people. Auntie is a term of respect of our older women folk. You don't have to be blood-related or anything. Everyone is kin. That's a beautiful thing because in this way no one is ever truly alone, they always have someone they can turn to."
Rita Huggins told her memories to her daughter Jackie, and some of their conversation is in this book. We witness their intimacy, their similarities and their differences, the '"fighting with their tongues". Two voices, two views on a shared life.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
Ackroyd, P., Dan Leno and Limehouse Golem
Levi, P., If This Is a Man, the Truce,
Lopate, P., The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present.
This course introduces different genres within creative non-fiction writing, including: the tradition of the great essayists; travel writing; ‘science’ writing; historical fiction; and memoir, biography and autobiography. In addition, the notion of fraudulence is explored in terms of the Australian literary landscape. Concepts such as verisimilitude, believability, and persuasion are explored, as are the lines between the real and the constructed. The course examines the key roles of objective research and subjective identity in the construction of writing.
