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Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Arnaud Schmitt
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Franziska Gygax
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Gwyneth Lewis
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Ophelia Field
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Ayesha Zahoor, Rabia Aamir
This paper studies the rhetorical questions posed by Atef Abu Saif in his work The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary (2016). By engaging the theoretical position of Paul John Eakin’s witnessing eye ...
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Objects as Armour; Objects as Container: Form and Thing-Writing as Means of Balancing Disclosure in Life Writing Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Gemma Nisbet
In 2023, I completed my Creative Writing PhD, which included a collection of personal essays that explored the relationship between autobiographical memory and objects, but also depicted some of my...
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From the Psychoanalytic Personal to Cold War Psychwar: Martha Graham’s Modern Dance, Jungian Archetypes, and Allen Dulles’ Central Intelligence Agency Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Victoria Phillips
For the choreographer Martha Graham, the personal became politicised because she used Jungian psychology and its archetypes to reveal and make ‘universal’ what she and Cold Warriors called ‘the sou...
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Life Writing 2.0: Joanna Walsh, Technology, and the Politics of Sharing Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Lucretia Rose McCarthy
Joanna Walsh is an author and activist whose texts typify the contemporary synergy between life writing and technology. Here, I present an interview with Walsh, keynote speaker at the Life’s Not Pe...
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‘Honesty of that Order Threatens Order’: The Autofiction of Chris Kraus, Annie Ernaux, and Sophie Calle Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Tom Lake
This article focuses on three texts that blur the boundaries of form—I Love Dick (1997) by Chris Kraus, Simple Passion (1991) by Annie Ernaux and Suite vénitienne (1983) by Sophie Calle. They can b...
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My Mothers, My Others: A Conversation about a Hot Potato Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Jane Hughes
In the process of grieving the loss of her mother, the author notices her personal reluctance to engage emotionally and goes on to identify this as a familial trait. Intrigued as to how far her per...
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Experimental Life Writing—Special Issue Introduction Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Lucretia Rose McCarthy, Amanda-Marie Kale
This article introduces Experimental Life Writing, a special issue dedicated to exploring narratives that push the boundaries of the form. It provides an overview of the field of experimental life ...
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Unspoken: Experimental Life Writing and Child Narration Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Amanda-Marie Kale
Children are, more or less, voiceless—historically, within society, and even throughout literature. Particularly in the realms of life writing, children’s voicelessness is no more on display (or ra...
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Duping Someone Else’s Body: Life Story of a Body Double Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Shalini Moolechalil
This article explores the told-to autobiographical account of Suraiya Banu, an ‘extra-actress’ who served as a body double for leading actresses in South India’s soft porn industry. Set against the...
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Establishing Narrative Voice and Encountering the ‘I’ Through Identity Creation in Life Writing Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Taryn Tavener-Smith
American biographer and scholar, Carl Rollyson, maintains that ‘the focus of biography is on the subject, not the biographer, yet half the story of a biography is, of course, who is telling the sto...
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Becoming Simple and Honest: Nietzsche’s Practice of Spontaneous Life Writing Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Fraser Logan
Nietzsche (1844–1900) struggles with complexity and many-sidedness throughout his life. He is a nuanced thinker who offers fragments instead of a rigid philosophical system, yet he admires the ‘vir...
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The Art of ‘Creatical Writing’: Unlocking Insights Through Creative-Critical Fusion Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Elina Mikkilä
In this article I introduce a new mode of writing within the creative-critical paradigm termed ‘creatical’. This practice involves merging creative and critical discourses to generate embodied, the...
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‘I Am Not A Melodramatic Person’: Defining the Lyric Diary Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Emma Winsor Wood
For the past few years, I’ve been seeking out books that frustrate many readers—and sometimes myself among them. They are frequently described as sketchy, short, fragmented, diaristic—when the read...
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Death Rehearsal Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Sheng-mei Ma
Living is dying, an unscripted, unconscious rehearsal for the premiere of death—one show only for each individual serving the life sentence, cyclical reruns for collective humanity. Given our life ...
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Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives From the Enlightenment to the Digital Age Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Teresa Bruś
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Elisabeth Hanscombe
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Maria DiBattista
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Affective Ambush: An Autotheoretical Approach to Understanding Emotions as Useful to the Research Process Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Emma Maguire, Marina Deller
This essay considers the use of emotions in life narrative research. Using autotheory the authors recount and reflect on their experiences of a phenomenon they are tentatively calling ‘affective am...
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Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Rikke Andersen Kraglund
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Author Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Federica Schoeman
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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New York-letters: An Ode to New York, a Panegyric to Persia Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Hossein Nazari
Despite the fact that a significant number of Iranians have lived in or visited the United States for more than half a century, they have produced very few accounts of their lives in or visits to t...
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Duty to Presence Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Nancy Reddy
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Our Hearts are Restless: the Art of Spiritual Memoir Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Rebecca Styler
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Enduring Places and Excavating Memories: Biographical Narratives of Delhi in Malvika Singh’s Perpetual City (2013) Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Neha Kumari, Manoj Kumar Yadav
This article explores the narrative and memory patterns that underlie the evolution of city biography as a genre in the Indian literary context. The late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed a ‘spatial ...
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Ghost Plants: The Possibilities of Botanical Ecobiography Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Nicole Hodgson
Sarah Brooks, an early botanical collector in the remote south-east of Western Australia, and entanglement with that region are the subject of my research. I came to Sarah’s story through a fascina...
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Making a Narrative of Repetition: Diachronicity and the Second-Person Address in YouTube's Routine Videos Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Veera Valta
This article seeks to explain the tellability of routine videos on YouTube. It examines two videos by two motivational videobloggers, Kalyn Nicholson and Aileen Xu, whose channels include several v...
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Handling Hazardous Biographical Materials: Dealing with Questionable Character Traits through Poetic Biography Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jessica L. Wilkinson
As a (poetic) biographer who has dedicated considerable time to wading through archives and other research materials, I have often found myself wanting my biographical subjects to reveal themselves...
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The Life and Death, and Life of William Mackay Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Michael Titlestad
This essay traces my dedication, over two decades, to reconstructing the life of Captain William Mackay of the (English) East India Company. Mackay was second officer on an unseaworthy country ship...
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The Book, the Camera, and the Concept of Dust in Life Writing by Patti Smith Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Teresa Bruś
This article maps out the relationship between language and objects in life writing by Patti Smith. It examines anchoring effects of books, images, and nameless small things and foregrounds how the...
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Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Gay Lynch
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Kate Douglas, Kylie Cardell, Marina Deller, Emma Maguire, Shannon Sandford
We are colleagues and collaborators working in the field of English Literary Studies, broadly defined. This paper reflects on our collective encounters working as Life Writing scholars within the I...
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Traversing the (In)Visible Territory of Schizophrenia in HOAX Psychosis Blues: An Intersection of Life Writing and Graphic Medicine in Comics Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Shefali, Preeti Puri
By closely reading Ravi Thornton’s graphic memoir, HOAX Psychosis Blues, as a testament to her brother Rob’s decade-long battle with schizophrenia, this article dwells on the intersection of life w...
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Our Bodies, Ourselves Translated into Brazilian Portuguese: A Study of the Impacts on the Translators Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Érica Lima, Janine Pimentel
This paper aims to present the collaborative and volunteer translation project of the book Our Bodies, Ourselves into Brazilian Portuguese and to analyse the translators´ ontological narratives (Ba...
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Mathematics of Translation: Encounters with Literature’s Excess Interpretive Potential Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Erin Nickalls
This article considers literary translators’ use of mathematical imagery to reject notions of discrete language systems in favour of a proliferative view of language variety. Drawing on research by...
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The Translation Memoir: An Introduction Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Delphine Grass, Lily Robert-Foley
This introduction presents the frame and contents of this volume devoted to the translation memoir. The translation memoir is formed at the intersection of life writing and translation studies, in ...
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Inhospitable Conditions: Hospitality, Kinship and Complaint in Maureen Freely's Angry in Piraeus and Mireille Gansel's Translation as Transhumance (tr. Ros Schwartz) Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Jen Calleja
This article examines hybrid life writing by literary translators that focuses on the interpersonal relationships between translators and other agents including authors and collaborators. Through a...
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Reading (Like) a Translator: The Sensory Life and Travel Writing of Danish Literary Translator Anne Marie Bjerg Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Ida Klitgård
The hermeneutic similarities between translation and travelling have been widely debated in translation studies and travel writing, with scholars such as Cronin, Polezzi, Italiano, Simon and Bassne...
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Neutrality Affected: Negotiating the Promise of Empathy in Interpreters’ Memoirs Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Yan Wu
As embodied agents of interlocuters in communicative encounters, professional interpreters use the narrated ‘I’ to tell the stories of others, while the narrating ‘I’, that is the interpreter’s per...
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Deux étés (1997): The (Auto)fiction of the French Translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor (1969) Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Elsa Court
Focusing on a little-known autobiographical novel about the French translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s multilingual magnum opus, Ada or Ardor (1969), this paper discusses the use of autofiction as a ...
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Echolation as Modulation: A Case Study of Chus Pato and Erín Moure’s Secession/Insecession, Accompanied by a Fan Fiction of Moure’s Work More Generally Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Lily Robert-Foley
This article takes a creative-critical approach to reading Erín Moure’s Secession/Insecession, a translation and echolation of Chus Pato Secesión, originally written in Galician. It subversively ad...
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Jhumpa Lahiri and the Translation Memoir: To Write and Exist Beyond the Mother Tongue Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Benedetta Cutolo
In 2016, following the publication of her memoir, In Other Words, Pulitzer Prize author Jhumpa Lahiri announced her intention to abandon English to solely write in Italian. Six years later, having ...
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‘Expand’: From Sur les bouts de la langue and Traduire en féministe/s by Noémie Grunenwald Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Translated by Lily Robert-Foley
The following text is an excerpted chapter from Noémie Grunenwald’s book Sur les bouts de la langue and Traduire en féministe/s, a translation memoir written in French and devoted to Grunenwald's r...
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Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Tijana Przulj
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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My Diary Diary Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Laura Bissell
This project uses diary writing as a methodology for undertaking research into 11 diaries of women writers. Part autoethnography, part critical discussion, my diary diary charts a month of reading ...
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Wounded Poetry Hands: The Poetics of Agha Shahid Ali Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Junaid Shah Shabir
This article traces how Agha Shahid Ali undergoes a paradigmatic shift from a postcolonial Indian poet to an (anti-colonial) Kashmiri-American poet. It opens with a detailed critical introduction t...
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Narrating Sexual Blackmail in Lebanon: A Present-Day Pathography Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Sleiman El Hajj
An ongoing economic and financial meltdown, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the August 4, 2020 explosion of Beirut Port—since 2019, Lebanon has been assailed by a spiralling confluence of mutually exace...
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Theorising Lebano-Pathography: A Biographical Exploration of Medical-Cultural Pathologies Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Sleiman El Hajj
To introduce the special issue on illness writing in Lebanon, I theorise Lebano-pathography as a dual, potentially adaptable and reusable, (i) narrative intervention (form/method) that does not dep...
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The Myth of ‘Wound’ Writing: The Multiple Surfaces of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Gretchen Shirm
The idea of writing from the wound is a pervasive concept in the discourse of writing, yet the relationship between language and trauma is a contradictory one. Writing ‘from’ the wound suggests a c...
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‘An Awakening of the Senses’: Reading Julia Child's My Life in France as Gastrography Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Lucy O’Connor
ABSTRACT This paper explores the generic boundaries of Julia Child's My Life in France, and argues for its inclusion in non-fiction narrative food writing forms—variously termed food memoir, gastrography, and culinary autobiography, to name a few—typified by gastronomic literature. Food writing has been underpinned by a gendered philosophical framework that pits the (female-coded) domestic cookbook
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Couples: A Collective Life Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Joe Moran
This creative-critical essay tells the collective life story of couples, by drawing together memoir and other texts (film, art, photography, biographical fragments) and social observation. It is in...
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Reflecting on Memory, Imagination and Place: Reading Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City Through a Cognitive Literary Lens Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Merril Howie
Although Janet Frame’s oeuvre has attracted sustained critical attention, her autobiographical writing has sometimes been characterised as inferior to her ‘innovative, sophisticated, post-modern fi...
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A History of African American Autobiography Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Heather Ostman
Published in Life Writing (Vol. 21, No. 3, 2024)
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True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Roger Porter
Published in Life Writing (Vol. 21, No. 3, 2024)
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Correction Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Published in Life Writing (Vol. 21, No. 2, 2024)
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The Man in the Mirror: Reflections on Dementia Caregiving in Lebanon Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Nayiri Baboudjian Bouchakjian
In this article, I study the different expressions of grief that I experienced while taking care of my Father who lived with Alzheimer’s for over a decade, in Beirut, Lebanon. As his primary caregi...
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Fantasy and Dissimulation in the Memoirs of Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926) Life Writing (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Rachel Mairs
The Yiddish-language memoirs of the journalist Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926), published in New York in 1919–1920, present a version of his life that deviates considerably from the version one might...