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| العنوان: |
Reading No Friend but the Mountains: From National to Transnational Contexts of Recognition. |
| المؤلفون: |
King, Phoebe |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Australian Studies; Jun2024, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p179-193, 15p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
LIFE writing, JOURNAL writing, BIOGRAPHY writing, LITERARY prizes, MEMOIRS, AUSTRALIAN literature |
| مستخلص: |
In 2018, Behrouz Boochani's testimonial memoir No Friend but the Mountains confronted Australian readers with their complicity in the nation's carceral border-industrial complex. In the five years since its publication, it has been translated and sold into eighteen languages in twenty-three countries and adapted for film, theatre and a song cycle. This article uses a book-historical approach to present a short biography of No Friend, analysing how it has evolved as a noteworthy work that has taken on distinct lives in the nation and beyond. It analyses two significant moments of recognition in the biography of this book: the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and the special issue of the life writing journal Biography. The life of this book—its production, reception and material form—suggests the potential for allegiances between cultural and literary elites in the reception of life narratives by forcibly displaced people. These allegiances mark the early versions of No Friend and have been central to its extensive mobility to new readerships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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