{"id":17777,"date":"2011-07-06T05:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/former-curtin-phd-student-wins-prestigious-award\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T01:13:49","slug":"former-curtin-phd-student-wins-prestigious-award","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/former-curtin-phd-student-wins-prestigious-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Curtin PhD student wins prestigious award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Marilyn Metta with Judge, Professor H.L. Goodall <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Curtin University academic has received a prestigious award for her book, detailing stories of three generations of Chinese-Malaysian families from a feminist perspective.<\/p>\n

Dr Marilyn Metta received the 2011 Outstanding Qualitative Book of the Year Award for her book, Writing Against, Alongside and Beyond Memory: Lifewriting as Reflexive, Poststructuralist Feminist Research Practice.<\/p>\n

The awards were presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Illinois.<\/p>\n

The book explores three generations of Dr Metta\u2019s Chinese-Malaysian family and how memory is implicated in the processes and politics of storytelling and story making.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Metta, a feminist academic from the School of Social Science and Asian Languages at Curtin University, said she was motivated to write the book from a feminist perspective regarding her Chinese-Malaysian genealogy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was interested in creating new ways of doing feminist research that are reflexive, creative and experimental,\u201d Dr Metta said.<\/p>\n

Dr Metta, a psychotherapist, also said she wanted to compose a book that explored the ways in which different ethnicities were portrayed in Australian literature.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to address the gaps in ethnic minorities in Australian literature as well as demonstrating how personal narratives can be used in contemporary feminist research,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to develop research that could inform and influence social, intellectual and political debates around ethnicity and gender issues such as domestic violence, sexism and racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judges of the award said Dr Metta\u2019s book was a wonderful example of life writing that braids together her own and parents\u2019 lives in ways that held integrity of each life.<\/p>\n

Of the findings, Dr Metta said the research demonstrated how life writing research can change lives, contribute to the living and respond to social issues of contemporary culture.<\/p>\n

The unique book contributes to the small but emerging field of Asian-Australian scholarly literature and research.<\/p>\n

Contacts:
\nKarys Nella, Public Relations, Curtin University
\nTel: 08 9266 3353, Email: karys.nella@curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Marilyn Metta, Curtin University
\nTel: 9266 4707, Email: M.Metta@curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n

Web: http:\/\/curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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