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Multiple Subjectivities: Writing Duall's life as social biography

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posted on 2023-05-28, 00:46 authored by Kristyn HarmanKristyn Harman
The colonial archive is replete with accounts of the intimacies of life at the frontier in early New South Wales. In reading these records, it is readily apparent that the scribes who mentioned an Indigenous presence had a habit of situating such people at the periphery of colonial society. More often than not, Aboriginal people were cast as supporting actors to the white male leads valorised in accounts of early exploration and settlement. Despite their textual marginalisation, such archival records remain a rich resource for those wanting to appreciate more fully Indigenous contributions to early colonial New South Wales. In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community demand not to write anything at all.

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Publication title

Indigenous Biography and Autobiography

Series

Aboriginal History Monograph

Number

17

Pagination

47-56

ISBN

9781921536359

Publisher

ANU ePress

Publication status

  • Published

Place of publication

Canberra

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  • Restricted

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