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Dr. Anna Poletti: Life Writing and Ethics
How do you write ethically about a real, living person? Monash University Literary Studies lecturer Dr. Anna Poletti discusses the study of life writing, and why it can be fraught when it comes to memory, experience, and other, existing people.
Anna recommends: Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell; Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
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