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Examines 'indigenous mourning protocols, as they are negotiated in life writing texts and in all manner of public discourse in Australia...' (p.190)
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Epigraph: But dead people persist in the minds of the living. There have been very few human societies in which the dead are thought to vanish completely once they are dead. Sometimes there's a taboo against mentioning them openly, but this doesn't mean they are gone. (Margaret Attwood)
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Collaboration and Closure : Negotiating Indigenous Mourning Protocols in Australian Life Writing
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- Unbecoming : An AIDS Diary 1990 single work diary
- Wandjuk Marika : Life Story 1995 single work autobiography
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