Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek
Abstract
This paper outlines a methodology for 'auto/biographical' life-history writing and
argues for its merits based on a particular case study. In the present context 'auto/
biographical life writing' refers to life writing that is produced collaboratively by the
participants, the researchers and research subjects, who are respectively positioned as
writers/editors and narrators. We will propose an account of the dialogical structure
that informs this inter-subjective interaction as developed in our collaboration with
one Greek-Australian political activist. In our collaboration with George Gotsis on
his auto/biography we have been taking what we call an ontological approach, in the
sense of addressing the conditions of being in a collaborative researcher–researched
relationship. We present the main features of this approach and discuss its merits and
connection with our Greek-Australian historiography more broadly
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