Australian Aboriginal Women’s Autobiographies: A Critical Study

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Australian Aboriginal women’s autobiographies function as literary vehicles that convey the writers’ protest against colonization and oppression. They deconstruct the history and Aboriginal identity created by the colonizers and come up with alternative histories in the form of autobiographies, thus writing not only their own stories but also the life stories of people like them. The writers emerge with multiple identities and the voices that are often in conflict with the dominating society and subjugating institutions. This raises important questions about the act of writing as well as life in a colonized society.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR K. Suneetha Rani

K. Suneetha Rani is Reader in English at the University of Hyderabad. She has visited Canada and Australia as a research fellow, and interviewed several Aboriginal and First Nations women writers. She translates from English to Telugu and vice versa. Her translations have been published in various journals and as independent books. She is currently involved in translating Dalit women's writing from Telugu to English and Sri Lankan women's short fiction from English to Telugu. She has recently completed her Sahitya Akademi Junior Fellowship on "Emergence of Identity in Dalit Women's Narratives."