To Begin to Know: Resolving Ethical Tensions in David Leser's Patriographical Work
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The practice of life writing raises ethical tensions for authors negotiating the space and intersections between self and other, and proprietorial entitlement.
The focus of this chapter is the method in which Australian author and journalist David Leser navigates these tensions – journalistic investigator and the dutiful son; former husband and doting father – in constructing his patriography To Begin To Know: Walking in the Shadows of My Father (Allen and Unwin 2014).
A prolific story teller, narrating the story of his father, publishing great, the late Bernard Leser, was impossible earlier in Leser’s career. But enmeshing it with his own story, ten years later, somehow bridged a tacit gap between father and son.
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Joseph, S., & Rickett, C. (2018). To begin to know: Resolving ethical tensions in David Leser's patriographical work. In B. Avieson, F. Giles, & S. Joseph (Eds.), Mediating memory: Tracing the limits of memoir (pp. 237-250). New York, NY: Routledge.