Tales Heard and Tales Read: From Chile to Australia: A Memoir

Authors

  • Carmen Schiessler Independent Scholar.

Keywords:

Identity, Folk Tales, Fairy Tales,

Abstract

This is an autobiographical reflection on my life with folktales, the trigger for my enriched experiences with reading in a new language and in the ways of imagination in my new land. For I used story to make my ongoing identity, even as it helped me to escape to a world of enchantment. Story, read or told, is the way to lands where ‘everything and anything’ is possible.

Author Biography

Carmen Schiessler, Independent Scholar.

Launceston, Tasmania, 7250.

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Published

2011-11-05

Issue

Vol. 26 (2011): Notions of Defiance; the Tragedy of Wars of Retaliation, and our Celtic Heritage

Section

Studies in Australian Folklore

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