Discusses the process of transcription, editorial emendation and re-writing and how it reflects the collaborator's vision of Aboriginality.
Chapter 9 from Creating White Australia edited by Jane Carey and Claire McLisky. Scroll down to read material.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 45-71
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Discussses the ethical, political, and aesthetic issues surrounding the narrative exchange and the writing and editing process of Indigenous life stories.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 56, no. 1, 2010, pp. 33-70
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Looks at how Lydia Maria Child’s writings about Native people use tropes of domesticity to address the “woman question” by way of the “Indian problem.”