Sugar, baby [Short story]
Article
Article Title | Sugar, baby [Short story] |
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ERA Journal ID | 35836 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Baker, Dallas J. |
Journal Title | TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses |
Journal Citation | (Special Issue 26) |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2014 |
Publisher | Australasian Association of Writing Programs |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1327-9556 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue26/Baker.pdf |
Abstract | This work of creative non-fiction explores notions of ‘taste’ in relation to memoir writing. The essay extends the application of memoir as mere retelling to one of critical refiguring. Core to much scholarly discussion of memoir is how to conceptualise and understand the past (Murdock 2003). This work recasts memoir as an ‘ethics of the self’ (Foucault 1986) that offers a way of remaking our encounters with the past. It does this by applying Julia Kristeva’s (1982) notion of the abject to a sequence of |
Keywords | creative writing, writing as research, memoir |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 360201. Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Southern Cross University |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q302x/sugar-baby-short-story
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