Auto/biographical writing and Greek-Australian historiography
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Date
2013-06
Authors
Nicolacopoulos, Toula
Vassilacopoulos, George
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Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek
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Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Adelaide 2013
Abstract
This paper outlines a methodology for 'auto/biographical' life-history writing and
argues for its merits based on a particular case study. In the present context 'auto/
biographical life writing' refers to life writing that is produced collaboratively by the
participants, the researchers and research subjects, who are respectively positioned as
writers/editors and narrators. We will propose an account of the dialogical structure
that informs this inter-subjective interaction as developed in our collaboration with
one Greek-Australian political activist. In our collaboration with George Gotsis on
his auto/biography we have been taking what we call an ontological approach, in the
sense of addressing the conditions of being in a collaborative researcher–researched
relationship. We present the main features of this approach and discuss its merits and
connection with our Greek-Australian historiography more broadly.
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Greek research, Greece, Australia
Citation
Nicolacopoulos, T. and Vassilacopoulos, G., 2013. Auto/biographical writing and Greek-Australian historiography. In M. Tsianikas, N. Maadad, G. Couvalis, and M. Palaktsoglou (eds.) "Greek Research in Australia: Proceedings of the Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2011", Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek: Adelaide, 466-477.