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This essay attacks Russel Ward's construction of male Australian identity in that locus classicus of debate, the turn of the century. Joy Hooton spotlights three authors of biographies, self-confessed Australian products of the 1890's who reproduce themselves through the medium of the text - My Life Story, Arthur Lynch (London, 1924); Comedy of Life, Lionel Lindsay (Sydney, 1961) and Naught to Thirty-Three, Randolph Bedford (Sydney 1944). Hooton explores the myth in this highly specific context, uncovering male anxieties and the suppression of issues of land, gender and race. Hooton adds George McIvers', A Drover's Odyssey, which is an exception to the myth, so further complicating an already problematised field. -- Livio Dobrez - introduction (edited)
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Australian National Identity and Self-Identity : Four Post-Colonial Autobiographies
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- My Life Story 1924 single work autobiography
- Naught to Thirty-Three 1944 single work autobiography
- Comedy of Life : An Autobiography 1967 single work autobiography
- A Drover's Odyssey 1935 single work autobiography
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