A Fuhrer for Fther
The Domestic Face of Colonialism
Published on 13. September 2017
110 pages
978-1-74224-281-1 (ISBN)
Description
'I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.'In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time in Papua New Guinea and Fiji prompted his own post-war mini-empire of dominance. A manipulative and emotionally ferocious man, he rejects his son and creates a second family, shutting Jim out and eventually disinheriting him, but never really leaving him alone. Traversing territory across Australia, South Africa, India and London, this beautifully written book tells of a time of crushing conformity, sharply reminding us that some experiences can never be written out of our personal histories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
Australia
Product notice
Windows
File size
0,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-74224-281-1 (9781742242811)
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08/2017
NewSouth Publishing
€30.70
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- I. A frontiersman marries
- II. A challenge beyond bearing
- III. Pieces of silver
- IV. In tranquillity
