To Begin to Know: Resolving ethical tensions in David Leser’s patriographical work

Joseph, SA; Rickett, C

To Begin to Know: Resolving ethical tensions in David Leser’s patriographical work

Joseph, SA

Rickett, C

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Publisher:: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir, 2018, pp. 237 - 250
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Joseph, SA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4978-6633	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rickett, C	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Joseph, S	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Avieson, B	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Giles, F	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:07:15Z
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir, 2018, pp. 237 - 250	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781315107349	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Resolving the binary oppositions of loyalty/betrayal and privacy/shared ownership frequently problematizes the practice of those writers producing patriographical/matriographical texts. David Leser is an award-winning journalist, one of Australia's most prolific profile and feature writers. He has worked as a Middle East and Washington DC correspondent, and as feature writer for the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax organizations. David Leser's professional writing career spans decades so he is familiar with the forms and audiences shaping and driving the publication industry. Reflecting on the therapeutic nature of writing memoir, Leser decides in the end that the reading of books/the act of reading books can be just as therapeutic. There are few moments where a memoirist can escape the interconnectivity between their own story and the story of another - the assertion of their own voice while simultaneously considering the possible violation of someone else's privacy. And of course, an ethical memoirist gives due consideration to harm minimization.	en_US
dc.publisher	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107349	en_us
dc.rights	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir, 2018, pp. 237 - 250, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107349.	en_US
dc.title	To Begin to Know: Resolving ethical tensions in David Leser’s patriographical work	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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Abstract:

Resolving the binary oppositions of loyalty/betrayal and privacy/shared ownership frequently problematizes the practice of those writers producing patriographical/matriographical texts. David Leser is an award-winning journalist, one of Australia's most prolific profile and feature writers. He has worked as a Middle East and Washington DC correspondent, and as feature writer for the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax organizations. David Leser's professional writing career spans decades so he is familiar with the forms and audiences shaping and driving the publication industry. Reflecting on the therapeutic nature of writing memoir, Leser decides in the end that the reading of books/the act of reading books can be just as therapeutic. There are few moments where a memoirist can escape the interconnectivity between their own story and the story of another - the assertion of their own voice while simultaneously considering the possible violation of someone else's privacy. And of course, an ethical memoirist gives due consideration to harm minimization.

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