From biography to autobiography
From biography to autobiography
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从传记到自传
DOI：
10.1017/ccol0521651220.010
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2000
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G. Whitlock
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对于许多读者、评论家和作家来说，澳大利亚文学传记和自传是一个丰富而复杂的领域。在本章中，文本本身将被用作出发点，以及一系列横截面的锚，这些横截面将强调从欧洲定居之初开始写作的重要性和能量，尽管重点仍将放在当代的例子上。这些书的乐趣之一是它们对自我和主体性写作方式的不断追问；对传记和自传体作品的一些最好的评论都出现在原始文本中。另一个乐趣，也是修改按时间顺序排列方法的进一步理由是，19世纪澳大利亚的生活写作仍然非常活跃，并且在今天继续重新出现。过去的事情没有解决。大量的参考书目和评论工作通过揭示19世纪材料中迄今为止“看不见的生活”，继续挑战澳大利亚文学史，因此将大量的自传体作品纳入参考书目记录。此外，评论家们最近利用女权主义批评、解构主义和/或新历史主义的方法，对许多19世纪的文本进行了重读。因此，例如，在保罗·卡特的《通往植物学湾的路》（1987）之后，像斯特特和米切尔这样的探险家的作品，或者沃特金·坦奇的日记，以前被归类为“描述性写作”，现在可能被视为自传行为，允许深入了解塑造自传主题的历史，文化和社会背景。露西·弗罗斯特的《镜中的脸》。《安妮·巴克斯特·道宾的日记和生活》（1992）也使用了一本19世纪的日记作为安妮·巴克斯特传记研究的基础，将自传日记和当代传记叙述编织在一起。
For many readers, critics and writers, Australian literary biography and autobiography are rich and complex domains. In this chapter the texts themselves will be used as points of departure, and anchors of a series of cross-sections which will stress the importance and energy of this writing from the very beginnings of European settlement, although the focus will remain on contemporary examples. One of the pleasures of these books is their ongoing interrogation of ways of writing about the self and subjectivity; some of the best critiques of biographical and autobiographical writing occur in the primary texts themselves. Another pleasure, and further reason to modify a chronological approach, is that nineteenth-century Australian life-writing remains very much alive, and continues to emerge anew in the present. The past is not settled. Extensive bibliographical and critical work continues to challenge Australian literary history by revealing hitherto" invisible lives" in nineteenth-century materials, so bringing a much larger volume of autobiographical writing into bibliographical records. Furthermore, the recent work of critics who draw on the methods of feminist criticism, deconstruction and/or new historicism has produced rereadings of many nineteenth-century texts. So, for example, in the wake of Paul Carter's The Road to Botany Bay (1987), the writings of explorers like Sturt and Mitchell, or Watkin Tench's journals, previously categorised as" descriptive writing”, may now be read as autobiographical acts, allowing insight into the historical, cultural and social contexts which shape the autobiographic subject. Lucy Frost's A face in the glass. The journal and life of Annie Baxter Dawbin (1992) also uses a nineteenth-century journal as the basis of a biographical study of Annie Baxter, weaving together the autobiographical journal and a contemporary biographical account.