Cross talk : collaborative indigenous life writing in Australia and Canada

• Main Author: Michael. Jacklin
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Uncategorized; Biography as a literary form; Canadian literature - Indian authors - History and criticism; Canadian literature - Inuit authors - History and criticism; Australian literature - Aboriginal authors - History and criticism; Canada; Indian; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30026808; https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Cross_talk_collaborative_indigenous_life_writing_in_Australia_and_Canada/21094306

This thesis argues that the critical reading of Indigenous life writing needs to move beyond its concern for power relations operating between the narrators and editors of collaboratively produced texts. It discusses the role of Indigenous families and communities in both the production and the reading of Indigenous texts.