Title: Offshoot : contemporary life writing methodologies and practice /
Authors: Brien, Donna Lee, 1959-; Eades, Quinn
Year: 2018
Subjects: Autobiography Authorship; Biography as a literary form; Literary studies: general.; Autobiography Authorship; Biography as a literary form
Abstract: Offshoot includes essays in life writing methodologies and approaches, as well as a series of creative work - poetry and prose - that engages with current life writing. This collection highlights the development and influence of the genre in the twenty-first century. Starting from the premise that life writing is a significant component of both contemporary artistic practice and scholarship, Offshoot provides a necessary re-evaluation of the mode, its contemporary sub-generic incarnations, as well as methodological and practical approaches. The book presents research on a wide range of approaches, including both traditional areas such as literature and creative writing and areas that have not previously been associated with life writing scholarship. With its multifaceted readings, Offshoot signals a shift in life writing research tending towards an expansive, hybrid, experimental, and rhizomic approach.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: Life Writing, Truth, History and Speculation -- Conjectural and Speculative Biography: Convict and Colonial Biographies / Donna Lee Brien -- Narrative Structure -- Is It Making Us Liars?: Truth and Autobiography in She Played Elvis / Shady Cosgrove -- The Truth Is Like Truth: Grey / Jeri Kroll -- Strange Hybrids: Telling the Truth and Other `Lies' About Fiction and Life Writing / Camilla Nelson -- Out / Lia Incognita -- `True Histories': Using Fiction in Writing Lives / James Vicars -- Biographical Forms and Ways of Writing Lives -- Profiling the Biography of the Contemporary Political Figure in Australia / Patrick Mullins -- Gatherers / Jeanine Leane -- The Frame and the Score: Knowing a Subject Differently Through Poetic Biography / Jessica L. Wilkinson -- Unleaving, Leaving / Gail Pittaway -- `I Felt This Landscape Knew I Was There': The Lake's Apprentice and Ecobiography / Jessica White