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Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourse

Acta Neophilologica, 2011
This article is concerned with the different genre applications to Indigenous Australian autobiographies. Scholarship has not employed a consistent genre designation for this literature.
Oliver Haag
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A Woman Haunted: How Graphic Biofiction Revises Mary Shelley’s Early Feminist Life

European Journal of Life Writing
Biofiction, literature inspired by the life of real people and histories, has become a popular genre. Rarely, however, have graphic biographies been considered in connection to this rapidly emerging (academic) field. To work out these connections, I want
Maria Juko
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Upheavals of Emotions, Madness of Form: Mary M. Talbot’s and Bryan Talbot’s Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes and a Transdiegetised (Auto)Biographical Commix

Prague Journal of English Studies, 2015
In 2012, Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot joined the likes of Richard Ellmann, Gordon Bowker and Michael Hastings and in their graphic memoir Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes (2012) offered a new re-telling of James Joyce’s life, focusing, in particular, on ...
Kusek Robert
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Youth Life Writing, Networked Media, Climate Change: The Challenge of Testimony to the Future

European Journal of Life Writing, 2021
This article examines some of Greta Thunberg’s life writing as an example of the creativity and ingenuity with which some young people engage with the identity category of ‘youth’ in their life writing.
Anna Poletti
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Uchwycić stratę, 
albo „kamyki cmentarne” z Melbourne

Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 2020
Migration always involves loss, which inspires potential writers and is itself often the focus of migrants’ narratives. Seen through this monodimensional attachment to things left behind and hence not particularly valued, written and unwritten stories of
Katarzyna Kwapisz-Williams
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The Concept of the Self in Come Walk with Me: A Memoir by Beatrice Mosionier

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2015
Beatrice (Culleton) Mosionier is a Canadian Métis writer, whose first strongly autobiographical novel In Search of April Raintree (1983) has been recognized as a classic of contemporary Native Canadian literatures.
Rzepa Agnieszka
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Cytoarchitecture: Digital Dismembering and Remembering in Cyberspace

European Journal of Life Writing, 2020
Between 2012 and 2017, a contributor to Mumsnet, a popular parenting forum online, began recording a third-person account under the pseudonym IamtheZombie, covering first her divorce and then her experience of cancer.
Emma Newport
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Marina Warner’s Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir. From Memoir to Filiation Narrative

European Journal of Life Writing
Marina Warner’s Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021) is her second work belonging to the genre of life writing, more particularly the memoir.
Souhir Zekri Masson
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‘A Task enough to make one frantic’: William Hayley’s Memorialising

European Journal of Life Writing, 2020
This paper explores Hayley’s approach to, and writing about, memorialising, focusing on his manuscript collection of epitaphs, his letters to Anna Seward about her epitaph on Lady Miller, and his memoirs and biographies.
Lisa Gee
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The Limits of Life Writing

, 2017
As my co-editor Maria Takolander writes elsewhere in this collection, ‘Life writing has long been theorised in terms of its limits’. Indeed, one might say that a concern with limits brought the field of life-writing studies into being.
D. Mccooey
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