1. Bello the bilingual cockatoo -- 2. "You're on the list!" writing the Italian Australian experience of wartime internment -- 3. Trauma and grievance -- 4. Celebrating Italian Australian lives -- 5. Autoethnography -- 6. Fosco Antonio's My Reality -- 7. Overview
Summary
This book is a study of biographies and autobiographies of Italian Australians. It looks at full-length life-writing texts, including accounts of the Italian Australian experience of war-time internment, success stories, narratives of trauma and grievance and life narratives as a form of ethnography. There is a variable zoom focus, ranging from a whole chapter devoted to a single text, to surveys of a dozen or more texts in each of four chapters. A final overview maps out a chronology and typology of Italian Australian life writing relating it to immigrant life writing generally
