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A Fuhrer for a Father: The Domestic Face of Colonialism

A Fuhrer for a Father: The Domestic Face of Colonialism

Davidson, Jim

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAustralia & Oceania

ISBN10: 1742235468
ISBN13: 9781742235462
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
'I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.' In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time in Papua New Guinea and Fiji prompted his own post-war mini-empire of dominance. A manipulative and emotionally ferocious man, he rejects his son and creates a second family, shutting Jim out and eventually disinheriting him, but never really leaving him alone. Traversing territory across Australia, South Africa, India and London, this beautifully written book tells of a time of crushing conformity, sharply reminding us that some experiences can never be written out of our personal histories.

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