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Ār konakhāne / ‘Somewhere Else’: Utopian Resonances in Lila Majumdar’s Autobiographical Writing
Cracow Indological Studies, 2018 Ār konakhāne / ‘Somewhere Else’: Utopian Resonances in Lila Majumdar’s Autobiographical Writing This article examines the autobiographical writings of Lila Majumdar, 1908–2007, a writer most famous for zany, fantastical, defamiliarizing, speculative ...
Barnita Bagchi
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Autobiografia, 2020 The Author discusses three autobiographical dictionaries (two of them are autobiographical in a strict sense of the term, the third one bares a visibly autobiographical approach), each representing a different language as well as founded on various ...
PAWEŁ RODAK
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Intermedial and Transnational Hip Hop Life Writing
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2019 In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of this forum contribution: The growing popularity of celebrity life writing and of memoirs which focus on the respective memoirist's specific social, professional, ethnic, or other context also ...
Nassim Balestrini
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Writing Sexuality in the Autobiographical Form
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2022 This article explores the representation of the female body and sexuality in modern Arab women’s writing in Egypt, focusing on the 1990s generation and the emergence of a new literary trend of explicit writing, or so-called kitābath al-jasad, which ...
Mahgoub, Miral
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Crossroads, 2022 In her Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (1989), Françoise Lionnet identifies the life writing of women of color as the reflection of their heterogeneous differences and theorizes female autobiographical narratives as métissage ...
Shirin Akter Popy
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The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives [PDF]
, 2014 This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and genderawareness play an important role in
Aouadi, Leila
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J’accepte: Jacques Derrida’s Cryptic Love by Unsealed Writing [PDF]
Avant, 2017 This article focuses on the autobiographical ghost that dwells in “Envois” and the multiple ways he/she/it interferes in Derrida’s concept of écriture. Read through love letters sent as postcards with the image representing Socrates writing in front of ...
Michał Krzykawski
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Biblical mythisation in Štefan Pilárik’s autobiographical writing [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2023 The life of the Slovak Protestant priest and Baroque period author Štefan Pilárik (1615 – 1693) was filled with hardships. Pilárik was forced to convert by the Jesuits – and several times during his life at that –, in 1663, he was captured by the Tatars ...
Ingrid Papp
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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test
European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect).
Julius Frankenbach +4 more
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Narrating(−)Life – In Lieu of an Introduction [PDF]
, 2016 ‘Narrating life’ – this phrase warrants some investigation. Who is the ‘agency’ or the ‘subject’ in this phrase, ‘narrating’ or ‘life’? Who, or what, is narrating life?
Herbrechter, Stefan
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