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Let Seizing Truths Lie: Witnessing “Factions” in Lauren Slater’s Lying

open access: yesHumanities, 2017
In her memoir, Lying (2000), Lauren Slater fabricates most of her life narrative. Her text frustrates those who resent the combined fact and fiction—or “faction”—that she spins. This readerly response is understandable.
Eden Wales Freedman
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"Pamiętnik dla dzieci" Heleny Masalskiej – świadectwo polszczyzny łotewskiej XX wieku

open access: yesActa Baltico-Slavica, 2020
Pamiętnik dla dzieci [A Memoir for Children] by Helena Masalska: A Testimony of Twentieth-Century Latvian Polish This article presents Pamiętnik dla dzieci [A Memoir for Children] by Helena Masalska, a text which may not be very long but is certainly ...
Małgorzata Ostrówka   +2 more
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Review of Harvesting freedom: The life of a migrant worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua

open access: yesCanadian Food Studies, 2023
The question of migration, land, labour, and food are intricately intertwined. In this book Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Farmworker in Canada is a living narrative that recounts life in St.
Noura Nasser
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Excerpts from Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2012
This is a pair of excerpts from the anthology Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. The book is composed of a series of memoirs by foreign-born women scholars working in various disciplines, in which they reflect on ...
Sarah R. Robbins   +2 more
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War and Migration in the White African Tropics: Lauren St John’s Rainbow’s End

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2016
This paper explores voyage and migration in tropical Africa through Lauren St John’s Rainbow’s End, a memoir contributing to debates of white African identity that now include more contemporary renditions of identity in female self-reflective accounts ...
Richard Gehrmann   +1 more
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“Like an object pushed from place to place” – resilience in the time of war and exile in "Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds" (2021) by Mondiant Dogon

open access: yesAutobiografia
The article discusses the form and functions of Mondiant Dogon’s memoir "Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home". After a short introduction on the position of the author/narrator/protagonist of the memoir as well as the trauma and
Katarzyna Macedulska
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Marina Warner’s Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir. From Memoir to Filiation Narrative

open access: yesEuropean 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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The 'memoir problem', revisited. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The ‘memoir problem’ revisited “That you had parents and a childhood does not of itself qualify you to write a memoir”. Neil Gunzlinger, book reviewer for the New York Times, griped in a review of yet another confessional memoir.
Pittaway, Gail
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AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study aimed to explore the perceived impact of using an AI‐powered voice journaling app in overcoming the challenges and stressors encountered by senior students enrolled in teaching practicum at an English Language Teaching Bachelor's programme.
Bora Demir, Duygu Özdemir
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Waving at Soldiers

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2015
For most writers the first experience of narrative comes from within the family. Facts, opinions, distortions and – very occasionally – truth, are shaped into family stories.
Heather Richardson
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