A fuhrer for a father : the domestic face of colonialism / Jim Davidson.
Publication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2017.Description: x, 255 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781742235462
- Davidson, Jim, 1942- -- Childhood and youth
- Davidson, Jim, 1942-
- Davidson, Jim, 1942- -- Childhood and youth
- Davidson, Jim, 1942-
- Davidson, Jim, 1942- -- Childhood and youth
- Autobiographies
- Authors
- Fathers and sons
- Gay men
- Authors -- Biography
- Gay men -- Australia -- Biography
- Fathers and sons -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia
- Australian
- 823 23
- HQ75.8.D38 D385 2017
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In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time in Papua New Guinea and Fiji prompted his own post-war mini-empire of dominance. A manipulative and emotionally ferocious man, he rejects his son and creates a second family, shutting Jim out and eventually disinheriting him, but never really leaving him alone. Traversing territory across Australia, South Africa, India and London, this beautifully written book tells of a time of crushing conformity, sharply reminding us that some experiences can never be written out of our personal histories.
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