The Boy in the Yellow Dress (Scenes From a Life) single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 The Boy in the Yellow Dress (Scenes From a Life)
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'[A] narrative journey into and out of shame. Confronted with a ready-made, marginalised identity shaped by hostile discourses emanating from Family, Medicine, the Church, and the Law, a sissy boy struggles to recover the lost parts of self. With the help of spiritual practices taught by a young guru he is able to reclain a subjective positioning which heals his alienation and re-aligns him to a continuity of being with all that is.' - from the author's Abstract (p.iii)

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y separately published work icon The Boy in the Yellow Dress Victor Marsh , Melbourne : Clouds of Magellan , 2014 7368680 2014 single work autobiography

'Perth in the 1950s. After being caught wearing his mother’s yellow dress, young Victor had to hide any tendency towards gender inappropriate behaviour. But his interest in dancing and theatre (and mooning over Rudolph Nureyev on the telly) were bound to make the façade collapse at some point. Emerging sexuality and the sense of not being 'at home' in his body, let alone the world, ran alongside a search for meaning that brought him eventually to a spiritual awakening under the young guru Maharaji ...

'Part family tragedy, part existential comedy, The Boy in the Yellow Dress is a warts-and-all account of exile and the subsequent journey homewards that is less about finding a respectable place in the world than an intimate connection with the ultimate source of being. ' (Publication summary)
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