| Australian Patriography: How Sons Write Fathers in Contemporary Life Writing Contributor(s): Mansfield, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857283308 ISBN-13: 9780857283306 Publisher: Anthem Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.999 |
| LCCN: 2013009373 |
| Series: Anthem Australian Humanities Research |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 222 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |