Printer's ink

Printer's Ink, tells the story of Marion Leathem, an Australian newspaper Proprietress, through the medium of her letters. Epistolary narrative and historical fiction recreate her life through the connection of self as 'other' by allowing psychoanalytic phenomena to filter the writing through the author's unconscious mind. The exegesis works through the prisms of autoethnography and historiography to locate epistolarity within the parameters of colonial and postcolonial Australia. The internal dialogue between the subject and the author explores how the psychological paradigms of transference, countertransference, and post memory determine the final artefact through self-reflexive practices and strategies. This work provides new research and resolutions on the use of self-analysis to produce authentic narrative.