The bilingual cockatoo : writing Italian Australian lives
Gatt-Rutter, John2015
Large Print
This book is a study of biographies and autobiographies of Italian Australians. It looks at full-length life-writing texts, including accounts of the Italian Australian experience of war-time internment, success stories, narratives of trauma and grievance and life narratives as a form of ethnography. There is a variable zoom focus, ranging from a whole chapter devoted to a single text, to surveys of a dozen or more texts in each of four chapters. A final overview maps out a chronology and typology of Italian Australian life writing relating it to immigrant life writing generally.
Main title:
The bilingual cockatoo : writing Italian Australian lives / John Gatt-Rutter.
Author:
Gatt-Rutter, John, author
Imprint:
[Sydney] Read How You Want, [2015].
Collation:
vi, 408 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781459685567
Dewey class:
808.06692
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
308012