Introduction; 1. Autobiography and history; 2. Beginnings: histories and families; 3. Beginnings and myth; 4. Parents, crisis and education; 5. The hidden past and personal history; 6. Autobiographies of displacement; 7. The individual and place; 8. Fiction and autobiography; Conclusion.
An important contribution to our understanding of autobiography, its history and the Australian experience.
"Australian autobiography takes many forms and calls on many different strategies, all of which McCooey sets forth cogently in a jargon-free style that is tight and bright with all the fat squeezed out." Choice
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