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Methodology
Mark
Hearn: Writing A Life - John Dwyer's Narrative Identity
With
reference to the life of John Dwyer, a working class Sydney radical
active in the period 1890-1914, this paper argues that narrative
identity provides a methodological tool for analysing the lives
of historical actors, enriching traditional, materialist interpretations
while avoiding the disconnection from historical experience that
some critics have associated with postmodernism. The paper places
a stress on the issues of alienation and subjectivity and explores
the debates on these issues and their relationship to narrative
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