Shauna Bostock "Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories"
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Shauna Bostock "Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories"
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About this listen
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Shauna Bostock chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
- The shocking late-night phone Shauna Bostock received that ignited her determination to unearth her family’s true history.
- How Shauna traced over 200 years of her Indigenous family history amid scant and fragmented records.
- Shauna’s unique approach to storytelling: blending biography, history, memoir and oral storytelling.
- How Shauna balanced being a rigorous historian and a loving descendant.
- How Shauna alternated between close-up personal scenes and wide-angle historical context.
- Why Shauna Bostock sees her book as part of Australia’s broader truth-telling movement, an effort to openly acknowledge Indigenous history and the injustices of the past.
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