Indigenous Biography and Autobiography

Indigenous Biography and Autobiography......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Teaching and Researching......Page 13
Compiling a bibliography......Page 15
Retracing the history of Indigenous autobiographies......Page 17
(1) The Increase in Publications......Page 18
(2) Changes within the national market......Page 20
(3) The entry into an international market......Page 21
Conclusion......Page 22
Bibliography of published Indigenous autobiographies......Page 25
Bibliography of published Indigenous biographies......Page 32
Translated autobiographies (select)......Page 34
Published sources......Page 35
Creating an Italian audience through translation, publishing and academic discourse......Page 39
Indigenous autobiography as/(is) literature......Page 41
‘My eyes fix on a face / a time / a space’:some considerations on time and space......Page 43
‘I know that I don’t speak the language of my ancestors’:the role of language......Page 45
References......Page 47
Ethical approaches to teaching Aboriginal culture and literature in Spain......Page 51
Multiple subjectivities: writing Duall’s life as social biography......Page 57
Secondary Sources......Page 64
Snapshots of a controversial life: Oodgeroo in the media......Page 67
Expo ’88, the Bicentenary and becoming Oodgeroo......Page 69
Poetry for a purpose: a controversial endeavour......Page 70
Representations of a ‘poet and activist’......Page 72
Conclusion......Page 73
References......Page 74
Indigenous Storytelling......Page 79
Beginnings......Page 83
The exemption certificate and the erasure of Indigenous identity......Page 85
Uncovering and reclaiming Indigenous identity......Page 88
Making sense of exemption......Page 93
Biographies of others descendants of exemptees......Page 96
Further reflections......Page 97
Queensland State Archives......Page 98
Published sources......Page 99
Biography as balancing act: life according to Joe and the rules of historical method......Page 103
Published sources......Page 107
Kinship relations......Page 109
References......Page 116
The road to Bama’s Sangati......Page 119
From Bobbi Lee: Indian rebel to I am woman......Page 121
Two hegemonies and the Woman question......Page 122
Transnational feminism and a world space for women......Page 124
Love, sex and power......Page 126
A patriarchal religion......Page 127
The ways of the grandmothers......Page 128
Native and Dalit women’s souls and bodies......Page 130
Celebrating difference......Page 131
The plight of the children......Page 132
Narrating difference: effecting transformation......Page 133
References......Page 136
Interviews......Page 137
Principles and Protocols......Page 141
Consultation and critique: implementing cultural protocols in the reading of collaborative indigenous life writing......Page 145
References......Page 152
Introduction......Page 157
Conclusion......Page 165
References......Page 166
The material......Page 169
Some significant events in Pauline’s life......Page 171
In conclusion......Page 182
Published sources......Page 183
The dilemmas of knowing too much: writing In the desert – Jimmy Pike as a boy......Page 187
References......Page 190