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Becoming Culturally (Un)intelligible: Exploring the Terrain of Trans Life Writing

Trans Narratives, 2018
This article offers a metatheoretical exploration of how we think through, understand, and categorize trans life writing. It explores Judith Butler’s theory of cultural intelligibility, the use of the waves metaphor, the conflation of trans life writing ...
E. Vipond
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Constructing Centenarianism in Neenah Ellis’ If I Live to be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians [PDF]

Polish Journal of English Studies, 2023
This paper investigates how centenarianism as a new age category in its connection to successful aging is established in the guidebook on aging and the interview collection titled If I Live to be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians by Neenah Ellis.
Julia Velten
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Grief-Writing

Art/Research International, 2022
It’s been a tough couple of years. Each one among us could list off the news headlines as a lengthy and overwhelming reminder. And each one among us could certainly curate a personalized list that amplifies and extends our collective sufferings.
Jodi Latremouille
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Travelling through the city: using life writing to explore individual experiences of urban travel c1840–1940

Mobility and the Humanities, 2017
This article uses a range of life writing to examine the ways in which urban travellers engaged with new transport technologies and experiences in Britain in the century after 1840.
C. Pooley
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Autopatografia jako przestrzeń „spotkania troski”. O realizacji postulatów medycyny narracyjnej w Mięchu Anety Żukowskiej

Autobiografia, 2022
This article presents autopathography as a genre in which patients can reclaim their voices to articulate their experiences of the medical system, drawing on Arthur Frank’s theory in The Wounded Storyteller.
MARIA ŚWIĄTKOWSKA
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Marlene Kadar’s Life Writing: Feminist Theory Outside the Lines

Life Writing Outside the Lines, 2018
field—life writing as a capacious term that is inclusive of many genres; life writing by women and men (women first); life writing that foregrounds the political, the literary, and the philosophical aspects of personal lives; life writing that invites ...
J. Rak
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Representing and Narrating the Self across Media: Vivek Shraya’s Artist Persona

Atlantis
Drawing primarily on life-writing scholarship and persona studies, and paying particular attention to the different media affordances, this article traces the autobiographical elements in the oeuvre of Canadian multigenre artist Vivek Shraya.
Karolína Zlámalová
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“I did not mean to make away with the child, I did not know what I was about”: Autobiographical Traces of Infanticide in Eighteenth-Century Trial Records

European Journal of Life Writing, 2015
In this essay, I am interested in the possibilities of maternal autobiography in court documents. I focus specifically on the trial records of mothers charged with infanticide between 1700 and 1800. Drawing on the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913,
Sonja Boon
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Paper Life: Nadia Olijnyk’s Notebooks

Interlitteraria
My Ukrainian grandmother Nadia Olijnyk lived in Adelaide, South Australia, from the time she arrived as a postwar refugee in 1949 until her death at the age of 95 in 2009. She left a bundle of notebooks in which she had written down her memories, mostly
Paul Longley Arthur
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MAKING MISCHIEF: DAVID HARE AND THE CELEBRITY PLAYWRIGHT’S POLITICAL PERSONA

Persona Studies, 2020
This article examines the fashioning of the authorial persona of British playwright, screenwriter, and director David Hare through autobiographically inflected extra-theatrical interventions.
SANDRA MAYER
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