Stitching the fabric of life: Refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. A creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis

This thesis is presented as a work of creative non-fiction and an accompanying exegesis. Together, they explore how narrative identity can be developed by people of a refugee background through a collaborative process of working with a non-refugee narrator. In my creative non-fiction work, Stitching...

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Main Author: Sayer, Rosemary
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76122
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description This thesis is presented as a work of creative non-fiction and an accompanying exegesis. Together, they explore how narrative identity can be developed by people of a refugee background through a collaborative process of working with a non-refugee narrator. In my creative non-fiction work, Stitching the fabric of life, I collaborate with 11 women and three men to create a series of life stories to challenge the over-generalised notion of “the refugee experience”.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-761222021-09-13T01:30:54Z Stitching the fabric of life: Refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. A creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis Sayer, Rosemary This thesis is presented as a work of creative non-fiction and an accompanying exegesis. Together, they explore how narrative identity can be developed by people of a refugee background through a collaborative process of working with a non-refugee narrator. In my creative non-fiction work, Stitching the fabric of life, I collaborate with 11 women and three men to create a series of life stories to challenge the over-generalised notion of “the refugee experience”. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76122 Curtin University fulltext
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Stitching the fabric of life: Refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. A creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis
title Stitching the fabric of life: Refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. A creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis
title_full Stitching the fabric of life: Refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. A creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis
title_fullStr Stitching the fabric of life: Refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. A creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis
title_full_unstemmed Stitching the fabric of life: Refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. A creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis
title_short Stitching the fabric of life: Refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. A creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis
title_sort stitching the fabric of life: refugee stories and the non-refugee narrator. a creative non-fiction manuscript and exegesis
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