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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... vol. 4 no. 2 October 2007 of Life Writing est. 2004 Life Writing
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Boy in the Yellow Dress : Reframing Subjectivity in Narrativisations of the Queer Self, Victor Marsh , single work essay
From author's abstract: 'In my experience, religion strives to drive a wedge between queer folk and their sexuality. Further, by perpetuating the sexualised construction of identity, it excludes particular sources of knowledge as fit only for people situated comfortably within its heteronormative models. Yet there is plenty of evidence that many queer lives are open to sources of "spiritual" insight ... beyond the heteronormative filters of the standard model. I present an extract from my memoir, a work in progress titled 'The Boy in the Yellow Dress', to demonstrate how the practice of life writing can produce versions of subjectivity that are resistant to homophobic constructions. ... The dis-illusionment that many gay men go through is re-presented as a stripping away of illusions, precipitating a radical inquiry into the nature of being that I propose is at the very heart of spiritual practice. ...I argue that, rather than upholding a fixed notion of self that is culturally produced, historically situated, and politically defended, in its quest for continuing liberation queer intelligence can prove responsive to the deconstructive imperative inherent in dertain "Eastern" approaches to religious practice.' (263)
(p. 263-285)
Child's Play, Victor Marsh , extract novel (p. 279-280)
The Author is Dead, Long Live the Author, Ann-Marie Priest , single work column (p. 303-305)
Untitled, Christina Houen , single work review
— Review of Inventing Beatrice Jill Golden , 2006 single work novel ;
(p. 321-325)
Untitled, Theresa A. Kulbaga , single work review
— Review of Split Lives : Croatian Australian Stories Val Colic-Peisker , 2004 anthology biography autobiography ;
(p. 327-331)
Speak, Memory : Adrian Mitchell's Drawing the Crow, Bernard Wilson , single work review
— Review of Drawing the Crow Adrian Mitchell , 2006 selected work autobiography prose ;
(p. 333-336)
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