Proceedings of the conference on the Secret Self, exploring biography and autobiography held at the National Library of Australia on Oct. 19-20, 2001 [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1231168
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- Audio
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- Conference on the Secret Self - Exploring Biography and Autobiography, (2001 : Canberra, A.C.T.)
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- 2001
- 8 digital audio tapes (ca. 555 min.)
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Recorded on Oct. 19 & 20, 2001 in Canberra, A.C.T.
How much does the autobiographer reveal?; what if anything is off-limits in the biographical enterprise?; where do the boundaries between fiction, biography and autobiography lie? - some of Australia's writers explore these and other issues relating to the writing of biography and autobiography including an examination of the public lives of politicians, the private lives of families, the power of self-revelation and the politics of writing a life.
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- 1. Opening Address: What is the nature of biography and autobiography? What issues attach to writing about individual lives? / John Ritchie; read by Ian Hancock.
- 2. Session 1, Biography and compassionate truth / Michael King.
- 3. Session 2 (panel), The Private Made Public: - Rewriting a public life / Peter Rose. - Public facts, private fiction / Margaret Barbalet. - Biography's fiction / Adrian Caesar.
- 4. Session 3, Capturing the political life: biography, memoir and journalism / Neal Blewett.
- 5. Session 4, The Life of Politics: - Contemporary biography : what to include / Shaun Carney. - Politics and biography : a difficult marriage / Christine Wallace. - Chifley and the biographer's task / David Day.
- 6. Session 5 (panel), Stories of the Family: - Writing a life / Sandra Phillips. - The Memory exposed / Louis Nowra. - Michi's memories / Keiko Tamura.
- 7. Session 6, Lies and silences / Nadia Wheatley.
- 8. Session 7, Autobiography and Re-invention: - Performing a lie / Ruth Cracknell. - Recounting a life / Andrew Riemer. - Documenting the intimate / Helen Garner.
- 9. Session 8, Portrait in the mirror : approaching biography / Robert Dessaix.
- 10. Closing remarks / David Toll.
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- Partially preserved.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Conference program available (3 p.)
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- National Library of Australia
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- 2001
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