Anna Poletti Anna Poletti i(A139608 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 The New Violence Anna Poletti , 2024 single work prose
— Appears in: Heat (Series 3) , March no. 13 2024; (p. 14-46)
1 This Place Really Needs a Lot of Intellectual Work : Behrouz Boochani’s Innovation in Life Writing as a Transnational Intellectual Practice Anna Poletti , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Biography , vol. 43 no. 4 2020; (p. 755-762)

'This essay examines the absence of mobile phone technology from the narrative of No Friend but the Mountains in order to reflect on the centrality of mobile digital technology for the intellectual work the book undertakes. Examining a key scene from No Friend but the Mountains where telecommunications technology is represented as a limited resource within Manus Prison, it draws on media theory and life writing theory to argue that the affordances of mobile digital technologies enabled the emergence of a new, collaborative form of life writing that both affirms the value of an individual life, while also making powerful claims regarding the collective suffering and dehumanization at the heart of Australia’s mandatory detention policy.' (Publication abstract)
1 A Forum on Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison Anna Poletti , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Biography , vol. 43 no. 4 2020; (p. 685-690)

'This introduction to a forum of essays on Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison situates the book as a work of life writing and political theory, arguing it is a landmark moment in the evolution of life writing as a cultural, social, political, and epistemological practice. It introduces the essays that make up the forum, and situates Boochani’s text as a direct challenge to the genre of refugee memoir and its privatizing modes of reading.' (Publication abstract)
1 Putting Lives on the Record: The Book as Material and Symbol in Life Writing Anna Poletti , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Biography , Summer vol. 40 no. 3 2017; (p. 460-484) This article develops an understanding of the role of life writing in putting marginalized voices on the record by examining the material and symbolic history of the book and its relationship with life writing. Taking two key points in the history of the book as its focus, the article argues that "the record" is a material and symbolic performative site that authorizes a life writer's claims to knowledge and experience. Through a reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's 1963 autobiography Les Mots (The Words) the article demonstrates the importance of the book to how life writers and scholars of life writing conceptualize the cultural, political, and social importance of telling stories from life. (Source: publication abstract)
1 Zines Anna Poletti , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : Z 2014; (p. 504)
1 The Dream of Love in Tsiolkas' The Slap Anna Poletti , Ali Alizadeh , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 212-225) 'This article explores the depiction of love and its most recognisable institutional form, marriage, in Christos Tsiolkas' bestselling novel The Slap...' (212)
1 2 y separately published work icon Intimate Ephemera : Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture Anna Poletti , Carlton : Melbourne University Publishing , 2008 Z1774546 2008 single work criticism

'Intimate Ephemera is the first major study of autobiographical writing produced and consumed in a youth subculture. Investigating the uses of the zine form for life writing, it examines the recurrent themes in texts circulating in Australian zine culture, including depression, consumerism, popular culture and political identity.

Intimate Ephemera also examines zine culture as a unique community of life writing and reading, where handmade texts circulate in an economy of gifting and exchange utilising the postal system. The book analyses the material diversity of zines as handmade objects, examining the use of the photocopier and craft techniques in these limited edition publications, bringing a focus to the role of the text-object in communicating personal experience.' Source: /www.lib.monash.edu.au/ (Sighted 20/04/2011).
1 y separately published work icon You : Some Letters From the First Five Years Luke Sinclair (editor), Anna Poletti (editor), Melbourne : Breakdown Press , 2007 Z1933848 2007 anthology short story
1 y separately published work icon Intimate Ephemera : An Investigation of Life Narratives in Australian Zines Anna Poletti , Callaghan : 2005 Z1774555 2005 single work thesis
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