Our Dark Places: the shadows between public record, private lives and ethics in true crime–inspired fiction

My research project consists of a creative work and an exegesis. I Shot the Devil is a true crime–inspired fiction manuscript that melds memoir with fiction. My exegesis locates itself in debates surrounding feminism, representational politics and existing cultural historians’ enquiry into creative...

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Main Author: McIver, Ruth
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76190
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description My research project consists of a creative work and an exegesis. I Shot the Devil is a true crime–inspired fiction manuscript that melds memoir with fiction. My exegesis locates itself in debates surrounding feminism, representational politics and existing cultural historians’ enquiry into creative responses to trauma and crime, via two autoethnographic essays. Both explore the ethical, ideological and epistemological issues surrounding the narrativised representation of marginalised subjects, including victims of crime.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-761902021-09-24T00:28:24Z Our Dark Places: the shadows between public record, private lives and ethics in true crime–inspired fiction McIver, Ruth My research project consists of a creative work and an exegesis. I Shot the Devil is a true crime–inspired fiction manuscript that melds memoir with fiction. My exegesis locates itself in debates surrounding feminism, representational politics and existing cultural historians’ enquiry into creative responses to trauma and crime, via two autoethnographic essays. Both explore the ethical, ideological and epistemological issues surrounding the narrativised representation of marginalised subjects, including victims of crime. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76190 Curtin University fulltext
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Our Dark Places: the shadows between public record, private lives and ethics in true crime–inspired fiction
title Our Dark Places: the shadows between public record, private lives and ethics in true crime–inspired fiction
title_full Our Dark Places: the shadows between public record, private lives and ethics in true crime–inspired fiction
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title_short Our Dark Places: the shadows between public record, private lives and ethics in true crime–inspired fiction
title_sort our dark places: the shadows between public record, private lives and ethics in true crime–inspired fiction
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76190