'The Shapeless Ghost': Ambiguous Loss and Creativity in Learning How to Breathe

This paper explores the representation of ambiguous loss in a recent Australian memoir, Learning how tobreathe by Linda Neil (2009). My reading of this memoir focuses on the way presence and absence aremanifested in the text and the way acts of creativity— making music, recreating family history and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robertson, Rachel
Format: Journal Article
Published: University of Canberra 2013
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Online Access:http://www.axonjournal.com.au/issue-4/%E2%80%98-shapeless-ghost%E2%80%99
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30972