A führer for a father
Subtitle: the domestic face of colonialism
By: Jim Davidson
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Sydney, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781742235462
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Authors; Biography; Gay men; Fathers and sons
Description: 'I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.' In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time in Papua New Guinea and Fiji prompted his own post-war mini-empire of dominance. A manipulative and emotionally ferocious man, he rejects his son and creates a second family, shutting Jim out and eventually disinheriting him, but never really leaving him alone."--Publisher's description.