BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This article presents a meta-critical synthesis of the paradigm shifts in life writing—encompassing both biography and autobiography—as documented in thirteen (13) articles published in the journal Biography between 1972 and 1979. Through thematic analysis assisted by artificial intelligence technology (Google Notebook LM), subsequently validated through manual review, this study identifies four main thematic cluste…

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Book · DOAB

In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community demand not to write anything at all. The c…

Full text · Open Library

The life story of Banjo Clarke, descendant of Truganini, born in the early 1920s in Victoria, who became known by thousands for his wisdom and kindness, his belief in forgiveness and his deep connection to his land and his ancient culture.