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[Review] No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison B single work   review  
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'Behrouz Boochani’s memoir of his arrival at Christmas Island as an asylum seeker, and his subsequent indefinite incarceration on Manus Island, is a miracle of survival and of testimony. To tell the unthinkable in impossible circumstances is an extraordinary act of courage and truth-telling. It is a searing, confronting, powerful testimony of indefinite detention and systematic torture. More than that, it is a work of resistance in the genre of decolonial literature,1 a significant piece of prison literature, and a scorching critique of refugee policies here in Australia, and by extension, globally.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Life Writing Career Construction Theory and Life Writing vol. 17 no. 1 2020 18651578 2020 periodical issue 'In the introduction to a 2017 special issue (14.3) of this journal devoted to the ‘limits’ of life writing, David McCooey suggested that an increasing degree of theoretical investigation into the properties of the autobiographical genre over the past two decades resulted in the term autobiography gradually being superseded by the more flexible one, life writing. This process was characterised, he argued, by an expansion of the object of study, becoming less strongly focused on literary texts and genres and more critically interested in other forms of life writing more generally: testimony, autoethnography, the representation of the self in digital media including social media, and so on. In a sense, the current volume about Career Construction Theory and Life Writing can be seen as an extension of that process.' (Hywel Dix, Introduction) 2020 pg. 149-152
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