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Inaccurate autobiography – the ‘true-invention’ of a life Pont, Antonia 2011, Inaccurate autobiography – the ‘true-invention’ of a life, Text, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads pont-inaccurateautobiography-2011.docx Published version application/x-zip 45.80KB 26 Title Inaccurate autobiography – the ‘true-invention’ of a life Author(s) Pont, Antonia Journal name Text Volume number 15 Issue number 1 Start page 1 End page 1 Publisher Australian Association of Writing Programs Place of publication Nathan, Qld. Publication date 2011-04 ISSN 1327-9556 Keyword(s) autobiography life death Aristotle Kristeva Arendt narrative Derrida writing invention praxis poiesis Badiou ontology the hinge self-reflexivity truth play Summary This paper takes the Aristotelian binary of praxis and poiesis and approaches the process of autobiography via its double lens. Drawing on a reading of Hannah Arendt done by Julia Kristeva, it considers the question of whether the activity (that is: praxis) of making-narrative might constitute an activity that is particularly ‘human’. It is framed by the playful and serious challenge offered by Derridean deconstruction to think two things at once, and to practice an inhabiting of binary ultimatums. Given this, it goes on to suggest that making in an autobiographical fashion, rather than involvinganythingprimarily representative or documentary, is more paradoxically akin to the invention of what is most true about that which we are in the habit of calling ‘our life’. Indeed, it can be argued that this praxisinvents that very ‘life’ – the latter being an entity or categorythat logically does not precede thesame writing that purports to describe it, but rather arises with its activity. This self-reflexivity (a manoeuvre that at once describes and invokes the very thing described) coincides with Derrida’s explication of invention’s mechanism. Language eng Field of Research 200525 Literary Theory Socio Economic Objective 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2011 Copyright notice ©2011, Australian Association of Writing Programs Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30040290 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 29 Nov 2011, 14:43:27 EST Tue, 29 Nov 2011, 15:26:15 EST Wed, 30 Nov 2011, 08:37:46 EST Wed, 30 Nov 2011, 12:40:37 EST Fri, 02 Dec 2011, 08:51:48 EST Thu, 15 Dec 2011, 09:41:28 EST Mon, 21 Oct 2013, 13:32:23 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 59 Abstract Views, 26 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 29 Nov 2011, 14:43:15 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas

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