Life with birds a suburban lyric Bronwyn Rennex
- Bib ID:
- 8662060
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rennex, Bronwyn, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of Western Australia
- Description:
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- Perth, Western Australia Upswell Publishing 2022
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- 145.2MB
- ISBN:
- 9780645247978
- Summary:
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A luminous account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war. This is not a war story about heroism or healing trauma, but an attempt to fill the gaps in a family story in the wake of the Vietnam War and re-animate a father never really known. Life with Birds invests in the small scale, the domestic and the ordinary as an overlooked part of Australian military history. Bronwyn Rennex has used whatever materials she could find in order to attempt to retrieve her father - family stories, love letters, legal documents, birds - and the gaps between these documents form perhaps the most important part of this story- a failure that describes a loss. Rather than describing her mother's grief at her father's death, Rennex uses love letters and her mother's written claim for a war widow's pension to map the shape of her mother's love and loss. Told in fragments and mixing speculation, imagination and guesswork, the narrative is personal, angry, political and also funny, balancing a desire for some form of testimony with a commitment to questioning how we talk about war.
- Subject:
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- Rennex Family
- Rennex, Bronwyn
- Rennex, John Renfrew
- Rennex, Bronwyn -- Family
- Birds -- Australia
- Families -- Australia
- Fathers -- Death -- Australia
- Military assistance, Australian
- Secrecy
- Silence
- Suburbs -- Australia
- War -- Psychological aspects
- Widows -- Australia
- Autobiography
- Biography
- Families and family life
- Family histories
- Fathers and daughters
- Mental health
- Military history
- Psychology
- Suburbia
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Genre/Form:
- Electronic books
- Terms of Use:
- Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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