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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

McDonald recounts her childhood in a deaf school and her experiences with oralism.

Affiliation Notes

Writing Disability in Australia:

Type of disability Congenital deafness.

Type of character Primary.

Point of view First person (autobiographical).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Appears in:

y Griffith Review Getting Smart : The Battle for Ideas in Education no. 11 Autumn 2006 Z1243211 2006 periodical issue 2006
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2006
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pg. 225-240
Appears in:

y A Revealed Life : Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir Julianne Schultz (editor), Sydney : ABC Books , 2007 Z1394789 2007 anthology autobiography Abstract 'Join forty of Australia's best storytellers in A Revealed Life, an intimate anthology of the moments and events that have shaped their lives between the bookends of birth and death ... A Revealed Life showcases the very best contemporary memoir pieces as published in the literary and public affairs quarterly, Griffith Review.' -- Back cover. Sydney : ABC Books , 2007
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2007
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pg. 32-45