Recompositions: Images of Patrick White in William Yang's my generation

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Title Recompositions: Images of Patrick White in William Yang's my generation
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Abstract/Description This article explores William Yang's relationship to Nobel Prize-win ning Australian author Patrick White as documented in Yang's theatre work and subsequent documentary, My Generation (2008). Drawing on his photography, reworked as a performance in 2008 and then later as a film which aired on ABC Television in June 2013, Yang situates White in the social, cultural and political landscape of 1970s Australia. Building on Yang's subtle storytelling and image-making techniques, this article provides readers with a series of images, glimpses into the life and milieu of a formidable, yet vulnerable and wryly humorous writer. We explore the ways in which Yang's layered approach to storytelling allows contempo rary audiences to access often secret or untold stories, places and images of Australia - and especially the Sydney of the late twentieth century.
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  • My Generation, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, 4 December 2008
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Source Australasian Drama Studies, ADSA, VIC
Issue 71
Page 157-177
Date Issued October 2017
Language English
ISSN 0810-4123
Citation Edward Scheer, Helena Grehan, Recompositions: Images of Patrick White in William Yang's my generation , Australasian Drama Studies, 71, October 2017, 157-177
Data Set AusStage
Resource Identifier 68772