Introduction: The Limits of Life Writing 1. Joe Sacco’s Australian Story 2. Malala Yousafzai, Life Narrative and the Collaborative Archive 3. Remembering Violence in Alice Pung’s Her Father’s Daughter: The Postmemoir and Diasporisation 4. Witnessing Moral Compromise: ‘Privilege’, Judgement and Holocaust Testimony 5. ‘A Thing May Happen and be a Total Lie’: Artifice and Trauma in Tim O’Brien’s Magical Realist Life Writing 6. Forms of Resistance: Uses of Memoir, Theory, and Fiction in Trans Life Writing 7. Confessional Poetry and the Materialisation of an Autobiographical Self 8. Reflection: I Guess What You Say is True
Biography
David McCooey is the author of the prize-winning Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography (1996/2009). He has published widely on Australian life writing and poetry, and he is also a prize-winning poet and editor.
Maria Takolander is the author of Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground (2004), as well as numerous scholarly essays on magical realism and theories of creativity. She is a prize-winning fiction writer and poet.
