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- Title
Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice.
- Authors
Pender, Anne
- Abstract
This book continues that trend away from an interest in biography, although it does include several essays on the form. Perhaps the term "speculative biography" is the issue, and we need a new one for works that explicitly shun the contract with the reader and the traditional understanding of biography as non-fiction? Patrick Mullins (recipient of the National Biography Award in 2020) presents a lively, highly journalistic essay about current Australian political biography that is at odds with every other inclusion in this volume because it focuses on conventional biography of living political figures in Australia - and therefore a specific sub-genre of biography.
- Subjects
LIFE writing; NONFICTION writing; POPULAR literature; LITERARY form
- Publication
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1447-8986
- Publication type
Article