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European Journal of Life Writing
ISSN 2211-243X · University of Groningen Press · 412 artikel di indeks
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Automathographical Traces in Wang Zhenyi’s Travel Poetry
This paper examines the intellectual and literary work of Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797)—mathematician, astronomer, and poet of the Qing dynasty—within the broader landscape of premodern Chinese women’s scholarship. Although Wang Zhenyi is occasionally referenced in popular and reference accounts…
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Translated Autobiographies in an Interconnected World: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Religious Memoirs
This article compares German, English, and Swedish versions of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century religious memoirs. We study four Moravian memoirs with two key dimensions in view: firstly, the tension between individuality and community, and secondly, the effects of global…
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Rimko van der Maar, In de ban van Vietnam: De Vietnamese onafhankelijkheidsstrijd en het Westen [Enthralled by Vietnam; The Vietnamese struggle for independence and the West]
This recently published Dutch book is meant to reassess the ‘Vietnamese struggle for independence and the West,’ in the words of its subtitle. As such, the quote from journalist Neil Sheehan with which Rimko van der Maar precedes his work can be seen as a statement of intent: ‘There are some events…
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Grant Rodwell, A Pedagogist’s Memoir: Some Boys Are Born Twice
Grant Rodwell’s memoir charts his journey from an impoverished childhood in the Oberon timber region of New South Wales, Australia to a distinguished career as teacher, principal, and multiple-doctorate scholar. What emerges is not simply a personal story but a rich contribution to life-writing…
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A Place to Stand: Life Writing and an Immigrant’s Journey Towards Belonging
Our globalized world is marked by transience and displacement. Narratives of colonization, war, and migration collide and mingle as individuals and communities are uprooted and ties with treasured people and places are severed. I inhabit one such narrative: a migrant navigating the interplay of…
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Art School Prostitute
In Art School Prostitute, Dylan Jonas Stone describes deceiving the authorities in order to purchase an authentic police uniform to wear working as an escort. As a young boy, art making came easily to Dylan, sexualised at the age of 12 by an older man; incorporating the confusing combination of…
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Zachary Leader, Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
When Zachary Leader’s book was announced, I thought hard about its precedents: books about books—not literary criticism but accounts of the gritty, human production of really famous tomes. A niche genre. But then Boswell’s Life of Johnson came to mind and a quick Google search revealed Richard B…
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Patterns, Threads and Tendencies: Metamodernism and the Memoirisation of British Biography
This article aims to trace the stirrings of a new structure of feeling (or emerging cultural logic), also known as metamodernism, in contemporary British biography. It focuses on the hybridisation of the autobiographical and the biographical in examples of twenty-first-century non-fictional life…
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A Getting Out of the Way: An Exploration in Using a We-Narrative Voice to Decentre Bias
We-narratives are a less common variant of the it-narrative, in which a story is written from the perspective of an object or non-human entity. As a first-person plural perspective, a we-narrative assumes affiliation and understanding among the community voice and differs from a multi-voice…
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Making Makeshifts in a Storm: Fragments on Vision, Faith, and the Body
This essay is a reflective, fragmentary meditation on disability, perception, and faith, written from within the lived experience of visual impairment. While disability is often discussed through theory, policy, medicine, or theology, first-person African narratives of disability remain…
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‘Life Writing Has Moved from the Periphery to the Center’: In Conversation With Alfred Hornung
Alfred Hornung is well known for his work in American Studies, Life Writing, and intercultural connections with China. He has been a guest professor at many different Asian, American, Canadian, and European universities. Alfred is one of the co-founders of the International Auto/Biography…
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Marijke Huisman, Queer geschiedenis van Nederland: De strijd om een eigen verleden
How does one write a history of queerness in the Netherlands, or, to the extent that this is not the same thing, a queer history of the Netherlands? How to do justice to centuries of historical experiences, and how to decide if people were indeed “queer” in the modern sense of this word – not just…
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Res Gestae in Autobiography: From Anecdote to Worlding
In this paper I analyze Ambroise Vollard’s (1866-1939), Recollections of an Art Dealer (1936 in English) who championed Cézanne, Van Gogh and other avantgarde artists. I examine the anecdote’s interruption of autobiographical narrative allowing Vollard to recreate and critique an array of artworld…
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Rather Than Crap Decisions: Confessions of a Confessional Writer
In this personal reflective essay, I try to explore some of the most pertaining facets of my writing career over more than two decades to date. Including and interweaving extracts of prose fiction and of verse, I examine the trajectory of my writerly motives across all the different genres of my…
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Sean Grass, ed., Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market
The critical niche Sean Grass began to explore with his seven contributors before the pandemic has yielded a collection of essays that is at once wide-ranging and thorough. Indeed, Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market not only achieves its stated aim of recovering the “sense of…
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Refugees Writing About Displacement
Five refugee students from Elimisha Kakuma write about their experiences of displacement. Elimisha Kakuma is a program that provides access to higher education opportunities for high school graduates in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. The authors reflect on their past, present and future lives, and…
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Hannie Lawlor, Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing
This review discusses Hannie Lawlor’s Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women’s Writing (2024), which conceptualizes autobiographical writing as a relational form in which narratives of the self are shaped by the lives of others. Focusing on contemporary…
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'I’m Just the Messenger': In Conversation With Craig Howes
Craig Howes has been a Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa since 1980. He has been the co-editor for Biography: An International Quarterly since 1994 and the director of the Center for Biographical Research since 1997. In 1999 Craig became one of the founding members of the…
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Stress, Freedom and Self-Transformation in Central European Life Writing: The Works of Yuri Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk
This article explores a research problem inspired by Peter Sloterdijk’s definition of societies as stress-integrated force fields. Sloterdijk contends that, during the Enlightenment, individuals discovered a distinct pleasure in distancing themselves from systems of collective stress. Literature…