ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the autobiographical documentaries My Survival as an Aboriginal (1978) and My life as I live it (1993), by Essie Coffey. We aim to localize Coffey’s work historiographically and theoretically in relation to American, European, Australian and Latin American documentary traditions, pointing out aspects of racial and gender identity and class alterity. Our analysis of these films indicates innovative methodological and thematic intersections between autobiographical narratives and social and race issues as well as highlighting the potential autobiographical narratives have to update both personal issues and issues of collectivity.

摘要

本文分析了艾西·科菲（Essie Coffey）的自传记录片《我作为原住民的生存》和《我的生活》（1993）。我们的目标是根据美国，欧洲，澳大利亚和拉丁美洲的纪录片传统在历史上和理论上对科菲的作品进行本地化，并指出种族和性别认同以及阶级变更的方面。我们对这些电影的分析表明，自传叙事与社会和种族问题之间的创新方法论和主题交汇，并强调了自传叙事必须更新个人问题和集体问题。