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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Tiger's Eye : A Memoir
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Text Publishing , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Beginnings : Intimations, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 5-16)
Beginnings : In a Tiger Landscape, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 16-21)
Beginnings : Initiations, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 21-35)
Childhood : Herbie, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 39-42)
Childhood : The Misses Wan, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 42-56)
Childhood : The Year of the Foreign Doctor, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 56-70)
Transitions : Eel or Trout?, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 73-77)
Transitions : White Aborigines, Inga Clendinnen , single work short story (p. 78-86)
Transitions : Indians, Inga Clendinnen , single work short story (p. 86-90)
Transitions : Black Sheep, Inga Clendinnen , single work short story (p. 90-96)
Transitions : Sisters, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 96-112)
Parents : St Elsewhere, Inga Clendinnen , single work short story (p. 115-121)
Parents : Writing Mother, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 121-141)
Parents : Writing Father, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 142-163)
Snakes and Ladders : Duck, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 167-172)
Snakes and Ladders : Crisis, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 173-188)
Snakes and Ladders : Home, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 188-191)
Snakes and Ladders : Reading Mr Robinson, Inga Clendinnen , single work prose (p. 191-218)
On Memory: Eel or Crystal? : Snapshots, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 221-226)
On Memory: Eel or Crystal? : I Spy, Inga Clendinnen , single work autobiography (p. 227-238)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Jonathan Cape ,       2001 .
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      Extent: 289p.
      ISBN: 0224061232(pbk.)
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1 May 2021; (p. 17)
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'Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss.'  (Publication summary)
Bodies of Knowledge : History, Memory, Selves in Tiger's Eye Bernadette Brennan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 209-214)
Clinging to the Shreds of the Self : Life Writing and Illness in Inga Clendinnen's 'Tiger's Eye' Richard Freadman , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , October vol. 9 no. 4 2012; (p. 377-390) Inga Clendinnen's Tiger's Eye is a brilliant, if conflicted, work of what I term 'illness life writing' (as opposed to the scientistic terms 'pathography' or 'autopathography'). In fact, no single generic descriptor can do justice to this text, which comprises elements of illness and survival writing, memoir, autobiography, fiction, narrative history, confession and Kunsterroman. As its title suggests, the book exudes a tigerish, agential tenacity; a refusal to succumb to life-threatening illness and its attacks on psychological and physical selfhood. Writing, both before and after the major illness, is fundamental to Clendinnen's agential response, and indeed this survivor narrative claims not only that writing helped to save the author but that illness helped her to become a writer. This later claim, which is never fully clarified, provides the Kunsterroman dimension, though, curiously, the whole issue of 'becoming' itself becomes clouded late in the book where Clendinnen seems to repudiate confessional - indeed all autobiographical - writing and to see the self, especially the agential self, as a fragmentary fiction. This quasi-postmodern view sits uneasily with much of what has come before, and indeed with some of Clendinnen's pronouncements as an internationally acclaimed historian. The essay, which also considers gender issues and the book's shifting account of the mind/body relation, concludes by inquiring what responsibilities survivor illness life writers have to their readers. [Author's abstract]
'That Weeping Constellation' : Navigating Loss in 'Memoirs of Textured Recovery' Amy Prodromou , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , March vol. 9 no. 1 2012; (p. 57-75) 'In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion laments the absence of any significant body of literature that will help her through her grief. I propose that the grief memoir fills this gap left by professional literature of bereavement and itself contributes to a community of mourners missing from contemporary grief practices as identified by Sandra Gilbert and Darian Leader. This genre, new to literary analysis, provides a fertile ground for the discussion of recent literary and psychoanalytic analyses of mourning that have resisted the neat split Freud draws between normal and pathological grief. My chosen texts deliberately complicate "packaged and frozen" (Ellmann qtd. in Payne, Horn and Relf 78) notions of recovery while honouring what Jenny Diski calls the "texture of experience." As such, I am essentially identifying a sub-genre of the grief memoir, which I call "memoirs of textured recovery." What sets them apart is the performance of complex 'recovered' selves that show how "recovery," ambiguous and shifting in nature, calls for more complicated theories of mourning able to accommodate an understanding of grief not in terms of Freud's absolute recovery nor Tennyson's "loss forever new" (Laura Tanner), but rather a space located somewhere in between.' Amy Prodromou.
Writ: On Memory Gil Gallagher , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 90-91)
— Review of Tiger's Eye : A Memoir Inga Clendinnen , 2000 selected work autobiography short story prose
Incisive Diagnosis Peter Goldsworthy , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 2 no. 9 2007; (p. 12)
— Review of Making the Cut : A Surgeon's Memoir of Life on the Edge Mohamed Khadra , 2007 single work autobiography ; Tiger's Eye : A Memoir Inga Clendinnen , 2000 selected work autobiography short story prose
The Roar of Angry Bees Morag Fraser , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 March 2000; (p. 8)
— Review of Tiger's Eye : A Memoir Inga Clendinnen , 2000 selected work autobiography short story prose
Afflicted by Distance Helen Elliott , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 March 2000; (p. 12)
— Review of Tiger's Eye : A Memoir Inga Clendinnen , 2000 selected work autobiography short story prose
Looking Life in the Eye Peter Craven , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 March 2000; (p. 11)
— Review of Tiger's Eye : A Memoir Inga Clendinnen , 2000 selected work autobiography short story prose
Strategic Remembering : Fabricating Local Subjects Gillian Whitlock , 2002 single work essay
— Appears in: Selves Crossing Cultures : Autobiography and Globalisation 2002; (p. 162-177)
Consuming Passions : Reconciliation in Women's Intellectual Memoir Gillian Whitlock , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature , Spring vol. 23 no. 1 2004; (p. 13-28) Compares Helen Hoy's How Should I Read These?, Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull and Clendinnen's Tiger's Eye.
Truth, Memory, and Writing About Others Raimond Gaita , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Inga Clendinnen : A Celebration 2005; (p. 17-24) 'Raimond Gaita spoke with Morag Fraser about reading Inga Clendinnen and writing truthfully. [This article] is an editied version of his thoughts.' (Publisher's blurb)
Stepping Stones: Writer and Editor Michael Heyward , 2005 single work biography
— Appears in: Inga Clendinnen : A Celebration 2005; (p. 26-30)
Broadcast History Caro Llewellyn , 2005 single work biography
— Appears in: Inga Clendinnen : A Celebration 2005; (p. 32-36)
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