The bilingual cockatoo : writing Italian Australian lives / John Gatt-Rutter.
The bilingual cockatoo : writing Italian Australian lives / John Gatt-Rutter.
The bilingual cockatoo : writing Italian Australian lives / John Gatt-Rutter.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Melbourne, Victoria Hybrid Publishers, 2014.
Call Numbers
H 2015/1452
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
viii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
1. Bello the bilingual cockatoo -- 2. "You're on the list!" writing the Italian Australian experience of wartime internment -- 3. Trauma and grievance -- 4. Celebrating Italian Australian lives -- 5. Autoethnography -- 6. Fosco Antonio's My Reality -- 7. Overview.
Publication information
Publisher
Melbourne, Victoria Hybrid Publishers, 2014.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2014.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Australian
- Italian Australians
- Biography
- Cultural identity
- History
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Scope and Contents
Summary
This book is a study of biographies and autobiographies of Italian Australians. It looks at full-length life-writing texts, including accounts of the Italian Australian experience of war-time internment, success stories, narratives of trauma and grievance and life narratives as a form of ethnography. There is a variable zoom focus, ranging from a w...
Alternative Titles
Full title
The bilingual cockatoo : writing Italian Australian lives / John Gatt-Rutter.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
© 2014.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
H 2015/1452
Record Identifier
74VK7ZqM6Rdg
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7ZqM6Rdg
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9781925000269
DDC
808.06692
MMS ID
991022692289702626
