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Author's abstract: Since the late 1980s, a steady output of life-writing has emerged from Australia's Aboriginal community. This paper - intended as an introduction to subsequent studies of particular texts - examines the socio-historic background to this literary phenomenon. It argues that the so-called 'autobiographical' writing produced by Aboriginal authors is, in fact, a form of autoethnography - an important counter-discourse to the systematic mis-representation of Aborigines that whites have used to justify their su/o-ppression of Australia's indigenous peoples.
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Re-presenting the Australian Aborigine : Challenging Colonialist Discourse through Autoethnography
World Literature Written in English
World Literature Written in English
