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Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir [PDF]
, 2009 PhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
Baillie, Amber Laine
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Autobiography of My Hungers [PDF]
Intro -- contents -- acknowledgments -- allegory -- I/ leaving the motherland, mother leaving me -- duty -- piedrita -- potato -- zacapu -- piedrita -- juguete -- trash -- lift -- witch -- piedrita -- fire -- x-mas -- crayon -- note i -- crooked ...
González, Rigoberto.
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An overview of research into My Career Chapter — a dialogical autobiography [PDF]
, 2008 The constructivist narrative approach to career development has matured considerably in recent decades, and is now a legitimate alternative to traditional schools of thought and practice (McIlveen & Patton, 2007).
McIlveen, Peter
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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'Trauma and transit/ions,' review of Gillian Whitlock. Soft weapongs: autobiography in transit. [PDF]
, 2009 This article reviews Gillian Whitlock's book Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007.) It discusses the trope of trauma in recent literature, writing, and criticism.
Kuttainen, Victoria
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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The Autobiography of B.F. Hall [PDF]
Handwritten, autobiographical manuscript by B. F. Hall, date unknown. Hall was a minister born in Christian County, Kentucky in 1803. He first came to Texas in 1848-49, and moved to the state permanently in 1856.
Hall, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803-1873
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Autobiography in the Pacific: reading post-colonial autobiography [PDF]
, 2009 Autobiography has a central role m Post-colonial literature, yet its features which are predominantly Eurocentric are not normally addressed in a critical reading.
Michael Hayes (5017598)
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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