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On some Aspects of Life Writing in Bernard Kangro’s Kuus päeva and Seitsmes päev [PDF]
Interlitteraria, 2013 The Second World War cleft Estonian literature into two halves for half a century: the literature of the homeland and the literature of the diaspora. Bernard Kangro (1910–1994), who fled Estonia in 1944, was a prolific writer, the editor of the magazine ...
Maarja Hollo
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Ante-Autobiography and the Archive of Childhood [PDF]
, 2013 This essay examines the concept of children’s autobiography via several autobiographical extracts written by the author as a child. Although only a small proportion of people will compose and publish a full-length autobiography, almost everyone will ...
Alexander Christine +10 more
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Suffragettes of the empire, daughters of the republic: women auto/biographers narrate national history (1918-1935) [PDF]
, 2007 This paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the ...
Adak, Hulya, Adak, Hülya
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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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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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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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Przestrzenie Teorii, 2007 Identity as an omnipresent category in science, art and life is considered by the author in reference to man. The author is mainly interested in an individual identity as revealed in writing.
Regina Lubas-Bartoszyńska
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