<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.f3b1fba60ec7970c.css">

To Begin to Know: Resolving Ethical Tensions in David Leser's Patriographical Work

avondale-bepress.context-key11955529
avondale-bepress.submission-patharts_chapters/31
avondale.affiliateRickett, Carolyn; 0000-0002-1157-1832
avondale.departmentScripture, Spirituality and Society Research Centre
avondale.facultyArts
avondale.reporting.isPeerReviewedPeer Reviewed
avondale.reporting.versionPublished Version
dc.contributor.authorRickett, Carolyn
dc.contributor.authorJoseph, Sue
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-01T00:26:43Z
dc.date.available2023-11-01T00:26:43Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-01
dc.date.submitted2018-04-12T20:50:49Z
dc.description.abstract<p>The practice of life writing raises ethical tensions for authors negotiating the space and intersections between self and other, and proprietorial entitlement.</p> <p>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 <em>To Begin To Know: Walking in the Shadows of My Father </em>(Allen and Unwin 2014).</p> <p>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.</p>
dc.identifier.citation<p>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.), <em>Mediating memory: Tracing the limits of memoir</em> (pp. 237-250). New York, NY: Routledge.</p>
dc.identifier.isbn9781138092723
dc.identifier.urihttps://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/1897/11955529
dc.language.isoen_us
dc.provenance<p>This book chapter was originally published as:</p> <p>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.), <em>Mediating memory: Tracing the limits of memoir</em> (pp. 237-250). New York, NY: Routledge.</p> <p>ISBN: 978-1-138-09272-3</p>
dc.relation.ispartofMediating memory: Tracing the limits of memoir pp. 237-250
dc.rights<p>Due to copyright restrictions this book chapter is unavailable for download.</p> <p>Copyright &copy; 2018 Routledge (Taylor & Francis).</p> <p><em>Mediating memory: Tracing the limits of memoir</em> may be accessed from the publisher <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Mediating-Memory-Tracing-the-Limits-of-Memoir/Avieson-Giles-Joseph/p/book/9781138092723">here.</a></p> <p>Staff and Students of Avondale College may access <em>Mediating memory: Tracing the limits of memoir</em> from Avondale College Library (920 Av5).</p>
dc.subjectmemoir; life writing; patriography; ethics; David Leser; Bernard Leser
dc.titleTo Begin to Know: Resolving Ethical Tensions in David Leser's Patriographical Work
dc.typeBook Chapter

Files

Original bundle

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Rickett__C._1_chapter.pdf
Size:
9.8 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format

Avondale University acknowledges our Sovereign God as Creator and Provider of all things. We respectfully acknowledge the Awabakal and Darramuragal people as the traditional custodians of the lands on which we live, work, study and worship across our Lake Macquarie and Sydney campuses. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to all First Nations People.

Aboriginal Peoples are advised the Library Collection contains images, voices and names of deceased people in physical and online resources. The Library recognises the significance of the traditional cultural knowledges contained within its Collection. The Library acknowledge some materials contain language that may not reflect current attitudes, was published without consent or recognition, or, is offensive. These materials reflect the views of the authors and/or the period in which they were produced and do not represent the views of the Library.

Avondale University is a member of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist system of universities and colleges.

CRICOS Provider No.: 02731D. RTO: 91191. TEQSA: PRV12015. ABN: 53 108 186 401.

© Avondale University Ltd 2026