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Australian patriography : how sons write fathers in contemporary life writing / Stephen Mansfield.
Van Pelt Library PR9605.5.F38 M36 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mansfield, Stephen, 1977-
- Series:
- Anthem Australian humanities research series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian literature--History and criticism.
- Australian literature.
- Fathers in literature.
- Fathers and sons--Australia.
- Fathers and sons.
- Autobiography--Authorship.
- Autobiography.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The Son's Book of the Father, as Richard Freadman termed it, is a rich field of relational autobiography, offering a unique set of tensions and insights into modes of masculinity, notions of identity and the ethics of representing another's life in writing one's own. This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers places an emerging sub-genre within its literary ancestry and its contemporary milieu. Providing compelling readings of Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father, Peter Rose's Rose Boys and many others, this is the first study of its kind within Australian literature. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Challenging Authority
- Chapter 1 'The Paradigm Case': Contesting the Father in Edmund Gosse's Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments 17
- Chapter 2 'An Indubitable Australian': Renouncing the Father in Hal Porter's The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony 39
- Part II Memorialising Self-Denial
- Chapter 3 'Words to Keep Fully Amongst Us': Honouring the Father in Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father 61
- Chapter 4 'I Really Was the Son of Such a Man': Replacing the Father in Richard Freadman's Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself 87
- Part III Performing Masculinity
- Chapter 5 A Speaking Subject/A Watching Object: Addressing the Father in Peter Rose's Rose Boys 115
- Chapter 6 Choosing Patrimony: Performing for the Father in John Hughes's The Idea of Home 139
- Chapter 7 'Neither to Vindicate nor to Vilify': Becoming the Father in Robert Gray's The Land I Came Through Last 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857283306
- 0857283308
- OCLC:
- 822668582
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