Whose story is it? To begin to know

Leser, David Herbert

Whose story is it? To begin to know

Leser, David Herbert

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Leser, David Herbert
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-06T01:17:11Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-06T01:17:11Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/90265
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.	en_AU
dc.description.abstract	This Doctorate of Creative Arts is in two parts: the first, a manuscript (now published; Allen & Unwin 2014) To Begin to Know: Walking in the Shadows of my Father; the second, an exegetical component Whose Story is it: to begin to know. When I set out to write the manuscript, my father, Bernard Leser was still alive. In terms of the exegetical component, this was as professionally daunting as it was personally rewarding. Before he passed away, he read my manuscript, we negotiated sections, and he gave me his blessing. This took us both into a number of deep discussions around ethics, freedom of speech and ownership of stories. It is a tale that involves interrogating the depths of a hybrid memoir: his story and mine, with other family members also in the wings. The exegesis is an attempt to position my memoir on an ethical spectrum, simply answering the question, whose story is it? It comes at a time in literary history when the subject of memoir and ethics has never been more polemical. My conclusion is that this is my story, but with important caveats attached, because no person’s life is lived independently of others.	en_AU
dc.format	Thesis (DCA)
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en_AU
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/90265/2/02whole.pdf
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dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	"To begin to know : walking in the shadows of my father" (published in Allen & Unwin, 2014)	en
dc.subject	Bernard Leser.	en
dc.subject	Ethics, freedom of speech and ownership of stories.	en
dc.subject	Hybrid memoir.	en
dc.title	Whose story is it? To begin to know	en_AU
dc.type	Thesis	en_AU
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This Doctorate of Creative Arts is in two parts: the first, a manuscript (now published; Allen & Unwin 2014) To Begin to Know: Walking in the Shadows of my Father; the second, an exegetical component Whose Story is it: to begin to know. When I set out to write the manuscript, my father, Bernard Leser was still alive. In terms of the exegetical component, this was as professionally daunting as it was personally rewarding. Before he passed away, he read my manuscript, we negotiated sections, and he gave me his blessing. This took us both into a number of deep discussions around ethics, freedom of speech and ownership of stories. It is a tale that involves interrogating the depths of a hybrid memoir: his story and mine, with other family members also in the wings. The exegesis is an attempt to position my memoir on an ethical spectrum, simply answering the question, whose story is it? It comes at a time in literary history when the subject of memoir and ethics has never been more polemical. My conclusion is that this is my story, but with important caveats attached, because no person’s life is lived independently of others.

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