https://hdl.handle.net/2123/14076 2026-06-14T10:50:09Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/14096 Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories: Introduction Brewster, Anne A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publication of Sally Morgan’s My Place (1987), which became a bestseller. While some of the books of the first wave focused mainly (if not exclusively) on the author, Aboriginal women’s life stories widened over time to include transgenerational histories of the family. Reading Aboriginal Women’s Life Stories is an important discussion of books that have shaped our understanding of contemporary Indigenous Australian literature. Anne Brewster provides an in-depth textual analysis of three key titles and situates them in relation to concepts of history, race, gender, family, storytelling and Aboriginality in modern Australia. This item is an extract from the book 'Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories', published in 2015 by Sydney University Press.The book may be purchased from Sydney University Press at the following link: http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781743324189. 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z