Autobiography

‘The stressful bane’. Review of Wole Soyinka, You Must Set Forth At Dawn: A Memoir.

by Andrew van der Vlies

Times Literary Supplement, 17 August 2007: 9-10.

Eco-Arsonists, Bomb-Wielding Neighbors & Queer Vegans: Reflecting on Labeling As Reflective Practice [2012]

by Michael Loadenthal

The following discussion will attempt to draw out aspects of reflective practice a bit more, focusing on the three... more The following discussion will attempt to draw out aspects of reflective practice a bit more, focusing on the three venues touched upon namely: researching the animal and environmental liberation movement, organizing and reporting on the Palestinian intifada, and finally, advocating for a politic of holistic anti-oppression situated in problematizing the animal-human binary and advancing a vegan framework within academic fields of analysis.

La luz de la ciencia o la luz de la sabiduría: el maestro en las autobiografías árabes

by Salvador Peña

Co-authored with M. C. Feria & M. Vega. Published in 'Autobiografía y literatura árabe', edited by M. Hernando de Larramendi, G. Fernández Parrilla & B. Azaola, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2002, pp. 117-126.

complexity and subjectivity

by Nick Lee

Un chemin de roi : Pierre IV d'Aragon dans son Livre.

by stéphane péquignot

published in "Pierre Monnet, Jean-Claude Schmitt (dir.), Autobiographies souveraines, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne (Histoire ancienne et médiévale, 113), 2012, p. 179-200".

“Suffused by Feeling and Affect”: The Intimate Public of Personal Mommy Blogging

by Aimée Morrison

Autobiography in Real Time: A Genre Analysis of Personal Mommy Blogging

by Aimée Morrison

That Obscure Object of Desire: Autobiography and Repetition in the Work of Aldo Rossi

by Mary Lou Lobsinger

The Past is Present: Pied-Noir Returns to Algeria

by Amy Hubbell

Nottingham French Studies. Volume 51, Page 66-77 DOI 10.3366/nfs.2012.0007, ISSN 0029-4586, Available Online March 2012

While Algeria has long been a popular subject for travel writers, since its decolonization in 1962, the travelogues... more While Algeria has long been a popular subject for travel writers, since its decolonization in 1962, the travelogues documenting journeys to Algeria have predominantly become returns and reunions with the homeland. Immediately after their exile from Algeria during and after the war for independence, the Pieds-Noirs, or former French citizens of Algeria, began returning to their homeland in their memories, literature, and recently, their films. Early return narratives were almost always filled with nostalgic descriptions of familiar places and sensations in an effort to bridge over the ruptures with the past. By transposing the colonial past onto the present, the travelogues effectively stop time in the homeland. However, more recent returns often demonstrate the instability of the past. Through a study of Marie Cardinal's Au pays de mes racines and Hélène Cixous's Si près, this article investigates how Algerian return narratives have begun to deconstruct themselves, and yet the past is ever present within them.Keywords. Pieds-Noirs, Algeria, Marie Cardinal, Hélène Cixous, Travel, Time

Christian Speer: »Vita mercatoris«. Die Autobiographie des Fernhändlers Hans Frenzel (1463–1526) aus Görlitz. Edition und Kommentar, in: SCHOLZE, DIETRICH/DANNENBERG, LARS-A. (Hrsg.), Stätten und Stationen religiösen Wirkens. Studien zur Kirchengeschichte der zweisprachigen Oberlausitz (Schriften des Sorbischen Instituts 48), Bautzen 2009, S. 150–179.

by Christian Speer

Autobiojazzographie. Jazzman. Chroniques et anecdotes autour d'une passion, de Stanley Péan. Mémoire d'encrier, 192 p. Jazzman. Chroniques et anecdotes …

by Yan Hamel

‘Wrenched from the Void’: Disability, Embodiment, and Sensory Knowing in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

by Angelo Muredda

Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. Colloquium Series on Memory and the Environment. Laurentian University. January 28, 2008.

‘Sit Still and Let them Examine You’: Sketching the Embodied Poet in Leonard Cohen’s Book of Longing.

by Angelo Muredda

3rd New Narrative Conference: Narrative Arts and Visual Media. University of Toronto. May 6-7, 2010.

Persistence is All: Writing (in) Emma Goldman's "Living My Life"

by Jason Malikow

I write a critical examination of Emma Goldman's autobiography Living My Life. Following a brief restatement of the... more I write a critical examination of Emma Goldman's autobiography Living My Life. Following a brief restatement of the major events and places in her life and career as a political activist, I turn to her autobiography and major speeches and essays. Of particular interest are the ways in which the act of writing and the circulation of texts function as instruments of revolutionary praxis, especially as the primary texts relate to the historiography of the anarchist and feminist movements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

"Oligarquía y resistencia social en la zona minera de Ojén-Marbella (Málaga): Contexto social, personal y político de la memoria de José Mairena Parra (1869-1919)"

by Alfonso Sánchez Mairena

by Alfonso Sánchez Mairena co-authored with L.J. Megino Collado
in "El trabajo y la memoria obrera: Actas de las IX Jornadas de Castilla - La Mancha sobre investigación en archivos: Guadalajara, 27 a 30 de Abril de 2009 / Archivo Histórico Provincial de Guadalajara, [coordinadas por Ránsares Serrano Morales; edición de María Cedenilla Paredes]. Toledo: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla - La Mancha; Guadalajara: Asociación de Amigos del Archivo Histórico Provincial de Guadalajara; Madrid: Fundación Anastasio de Gracia-FITEL, 2009; pp. 365-390.
ISBN 978-84-615-1249-2 / 978-84-614-1250-8.

"La memoria oral y escrita en el movimiento obrero español: el folleto autobiográfico de José Mairena Parra (1918)"

by Alfonso Sánchez Mairena

by Alfonso Sánchez Mairena co-authored with L.J. Megino Collado
in "El trabajo y la memoria obrera: Actas de las IX Jornadas de Castilla - La Mancha sobre investigación en archivos: Guadalajara, 27 a 30 de Abril de 2009 / Archivo Histórico Provincial de Guadalajara, [coordinadas por Ránsares Serrano Morales; edición de María Cedenilla Paredes]. Toledo: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla - La Mancha; Guadalajara: Asociación de Amigos del Archivo Histórico Provincial de Guadalajara; Madrid: Fundación Anastasio de Gracia-FITEL, 2009; pp. 391-419.
ISBN 978-84-615-1249-2 / 978-84-614-1250-8.

Issue 6.1 Telling Stories/Telling Lives, Editorial

by Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings

The contributions in this issue-both autobiography and fiction-share a concern with the elusiveness of the past, the... more The contributions in this issue-both autobiography and fiction-share a concern with the elusiveness of the past, the fickleness of memory, the journeys we embark upon and experiences gathered along the way, the compulsion to make stories and therefore sense of our lives, and recognition of their own precariousness and of being always in transit.

Issue 6.1 Telling Stories/Telling Lives, Table of Contents

by Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings

The contributions in this issue-both autobiography and fiction-share a concern with the elusiveness of the past, the... more The contributions in this issue-both autobiography and fiction-share a concern with the elusiveness of the past, the fickleness of memory, the journeys we embark upon and experiences gathered along the way, the compulsion to make stories and therefore sense of our lives, and recognition of their own precariousness and of being always in transit.

Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Sharon K. Goetz

The Dialectic of Silence and Remembrance in Lily Brett's Things Could Be Worse

by Catalina Botez

Rita Ciotta Neves (ed.). Babilónia: Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução. nº especial 10/11, 2011. Lisboa: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas pp. 15-29.

Abstract:
The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction... more Abstract:
The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction 'Things Could Be Worse' reflects the crisis of memory and understanding experienced by both first and second-generation Holocaust survivors within the diasporic space of contemporary Australia. It leads to issues of handling traumatic and transgenerational memory, the latter also known as postmemory (M. Hirsch), in the long aftermath of atrocities, and problematises the role of forgetting in shielding displaced identities against total dissolution of the self.
This paper explores the mechanisms of remembrance and forgetting in L. Brett’s narrative by mainly focusing on two female characters, mother and daughter, whose coming to terms with (the necessary) silence, on the one hand, and articulated memories, on the other, reflects different modes of comprehending and eventually coping with individual trauma. By differentiating between several types of silence encountered in Brett’s prose (that of the voiceless victims, of survivors and their offspring, respectively), I argue that silence can equally voice and hush traumatic experience, that it is never empty, but invested with individual and collective meaning. Essentially, I contend that beside the (self-)damaging effects of silence, there are also beneficial consequences of it, in that it plays a crucial role in emplacing the displaced, rebuilding their shattered self, and contributing to their reintegration, survival and even partial healing.

Keywords: silence of the Holocaust, traumatic memory, Jewish-Australian migrant identities, postmemory, autobiographic fiction