The Aboriginal Subject in Autobiography
Ruby Langford’s *Don’t Take Your Love to Town
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8891250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Rowse (0000-0003-3602-5966, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Publication date | 1993-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.8b8ebcb7c5 |
| OpenAlex | W2489153947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
A sense of 'who I was' issues from the record of the life; it does not precede and shape that record. Langford's need to articulate her self can be traced back to the many incidents of her life in which circumstances impeded her self-realisation in speech and action. One of the outstanding textual qualities of Don't Take Your Love to Town is the narrative's emphasis on the outward circumstances of life: where Langford lives, who she is with, what they are doing, little incidents which she recalls about that scene. That Langford's is a very circumstantial narrative, concerned overwhelmingly with incident, has important consequences for the reader. However vividly a 'character' emerges in certain bold actions (for example, there are nine episodes of her 'decking' various acquaintances), a 'subject' seems to be absent from this circumstantial narrative
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biography · Character (mathematics · Circumstantial evidence · Literature · Narrative · Realisation · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · History · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2015 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |