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'Liv is a woman's journey of self-discovery through the stories of her family - the cross-generational struggle for identity, the trauma of war, the dislocation of migration, the humour in the mundane. Olivia draws together fragmented layers of family and personal history that are her life, that are who she is. Her search for understanding becomes a pilgrimage...' (Source: Backcover)
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Dedication: In memory of Ana Anderson.
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Works about this Work
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A Fragmented Life : Writing Intergenerational Trauma in Morgan Yasbincek's 'Liv'
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 41 no. 1-2 2015; (p. 101-115)'In this article I engage trauma theory to analyse the narrative strategies that Morgan Yasbincek deploys in the novel 'liv' (2000). I demonstrate how Yasbincek makes the expression of creative emergence from catastrophically fracturing intergenerational trauma significant as a theme and a process and how the text makes this imaginatively and effectively available to the reader. I analyse the representation in 'liv' of the paradox inherent in the traumatic shattering of subjectivity and the ensuing reconstruction of identity facilitated through creative writing, where the imperative to create enables an oblique access to the foreclosed traumatic experience.
''liv' is a fictionalised account of a family's Croatian-Australian migration and, although it was short-listed for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2000, and commended by the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards of the same year, critical analysis of the work has to date been limited. The narrative is enacted through a heteroglossia that is foregrounded through the use of stylistic fragments that perform the temporality of the intergenerational and traumatic memory and dis-continuity. 'liv' shows how intergenerational trauma manifests and has its effect attenuated as emergent subjectivity forms through creative endeavour.' (Publication abstract)
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The Traumas of Translation and the Translation of Trauma : Translation and Cultural Plurality in Fremd and Yasbincek
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 23 no. 2 2007; (p. 27-42)
— Appears in: Imaginary Antipodes : Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture 2011; (p. 193-205) West-Pavlov asks why translation as an index of cultural plurality receive so little attention in Australian literature and in Australian literary studies and concludes that 'texts such as Fremd's Heartland and Yasbincek's liv implicitly issue a call to literary studies to take cognisance of the ambient linguistic pluralism and the omnipresent strategies of translation out of which they emerge, but which have been hitherto largely ignored' (40). -
Conflict Diamonds
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 164 2001; (p. 102-105)
— Review of Lines in the Sand 2000 single work novel ; The Rain Queen 2000 single work novel ; Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel ; Love and Vertigo 2000 single work novel ; The Australian Fiance 2000 single work novel ; Family Album : A Novel of Secrets and Memories 2000 single work novel ; White Turtle : A Collection of Short Stories 1999 selected work short story ; The White Star 2000 single work novel ; The Architect 2000 single work novel ; Snake Circle 2000 single work autobiography ; Full Circle 2000 single work novel ; Vigil 2000 single work novel ; The Secret : The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron 2000 single work biography ; Reefscape : Reflections on the Great Barrier Reef 2000 single work prose -
A Feat of Remembering
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Ulitarra , July no. 17/18 2000; (p. 206-209)
— Review of Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Acts of Noticing : A Consideration of Some Recent Australian Fiction
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 45 no. 2000; (p. 23-36)
— Review of The Red Heart 1999 selected work essay autobiography ; Untold Tales 1999 selected work short story ; Dream Stuff 2000 selected work short story ; Blue : A Novel 1999 single work novel ; Freedom Highway 1999 single work novel ; The Chelsea Manifesto : A Novel 1999 single work novel ; Painted Words 1999 anthology short story poetry ; Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel ; Hidden from View 1999 single work novel ; Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel ; Drylands : A Book for the World's Last Reader 1999 single work novel ; An Accommodating Spouse 1999 single work novel ; Neap Tide 1999 single work novel ; Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop 1999 single work novel ; Poe's Cat 1999 single work novel ; Playing Madame Mao 2000 single work novel ; The Hunter 1999 single work novel ; The Australian Fiance 2000 single work novel
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A Feat of Remembering
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Ulitarra , July no. 17/18 2000; (p. 206-209)
— Review of Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Paperbacks
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 2 July 2000; (p. 59)
— Review of Syrup : A Novel 1999 single work novel ; Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
Risk-Taking Debut Dazzles
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 July 2000; (p. 14)
— Review of Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel ; The Notary 2000 single work novel -
Paperbacks
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 July 2000; (p. 10)
— Review of Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel ; Rose Paterson's Illalong Letters : 1873-1888 2000 selected work correspondence -
Narrative fragments
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 226 2000; (p. 44-45)
— Review of Liv : A Novel 2000 single work novel -
The Traumas of Translation and the Translation of Trauma : Translation and Cultural Plurality in Fremd and Yasbincek
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 23 no. 2 2007; (p. 27-42)
— Appears in: Imaginary Antipodes : Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture 2011; (p. 193-205) West-Pavlov asks why translation as an index of cultural plurality receive so little attention in Australian literature and in Australian literary studies and concludes that 'texts such as Fremd's Heartland and Yasbincek's liv implicitly issue a call to literary studies to take cognisance of the ambient linguistic pluralism and the omnipresent strategies of translation out of which they emerge, but which have been hitherto largely ignored' (40). -
A Fragmented Life : Writing Intergenerational Trauma in Morgan Yasbincek's 'Liv'
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 41 no. 1-2 2015; (p. 101-115)'In this article I engage trauma theory to analyse the narrative strategies that Morgan Yasbincek deploys in the novel 'liv' (2000). I demonstrate how Yasbincek makes the expression of creative emergence from catastrophically fracturing intergenerational trauma significant as a theme and a process and how the text makes this imaginatively and effectively available to the reader. I analyse the representation in 'liv' of the paradox inherent in the traumatic shattering of subjectivity and the ensuing reconstruction of identity facilitated through creative writing, where the imperative to create enables an oblique access to the foreclosed traumatic experience.
''liv' is a fictionalised account of a family's Croatian-Australian migration and, although it was short-listed for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2000, and commended by the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards of the same year, critical analysis of the work has to date been limited. The narrative is enacted through a heteroglossia that is foregrounded through the use of stylistic fragments that perform the temporality of the intergenerational and traumatic memory and dis-continuity. 'liv' shows how intergenerational trauma manifests and has its effect attenuated as emergent subjectivity forms through creative endeavour.' (Publication abstract)
Awards
- 2000 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- Europe,
- Perth, Western Australia,
