
The Bilingual Cockatoo
Writing Italian Australian Lives
John Gatt-Rutter(Author)
Hybrid Publishers
Published on 3. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-925000-26-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a study of biographies and autobiographies of Italian Australians. It looks at full-length life-writing texts, including accounts of the Italian Australian experience of war-time internment, success stories, narratives of trauma and grievance and life narratives as a form of ethnography. There is a variable zoom focus, ranging from a whole chapter devoted to a single text, to surveys of a dozen or more texts in each of four chapters. A final overview maps out a chronology and typology of Italian Australian life writing relating it to immigrant life writing generally.
Given its topic, the book has a tightly integrated double analytical focus. On the one hand, it studies the textual strategies deployed by the writers, and, on the other hand, it explores the experiential dimensions highlighted by the texts.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ormond
Australia
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925000-26-9 (9781925000269)
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