Lives & Letters Mailing: January & February 2018
Dear Colleagues,
Happy New Year from all of us at Whites Writing Whiteness, and welcome to another Lives & Letters Mailing. This month’s mailing contains information about:
- Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
- All the many changes to the WWW website detailed in the previous L&L mailing
- The fire next time? Introduction to Generations, established/outsider groups and South African universities in crisis.
- Analysing the Racialising Process
- Elias and Eurocentricism
- Analysing Figurations
- Histoire croissée and entangled lives
- From the blog: New WWW website news
- From the blog: Settler colonialism, in the traces
- The First Newsletter of the Biography Society is Online
- Biography vol. 40, no. 3, hot off the presses!
- Life Writing, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online
- TRANSNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY IN EUROPE (1/31/2018; 8/29/2018) Brno, Czech Republic
- Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies (China) No.9, Autumn 2017, and a Call for Papers
- CFP: 4th International Irish Narrative Inquiry Conference, April 19-20, 2018
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1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
A brief reminder that we have earlier posted information about seven new Traces and two new Curiosities, with these being detailed in December’s L & L email blast. Please visit, we hope you find them useful, and any feedback would be gratefully received
New Traces
- Lovedale riots 1920, 1946
- Analysing traces: texts in action
- The 1820 Settlers arrive, 15 & 16 May 1820
- From John Montagu, Colonial Secretary, 14 February 1844
- Two messengers (kaffirs)… waylaid and killed, 13 March 1852
- ‘Afford my Country an infinite Advantage’ 9 June 1795
- Get the boys for me, 14 February 1898
Click here to visit the Traces: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/traces/
New Curiosities
- Whose collection is it?
- Where there’s a Will…
Click here to visit the Curiosities: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/curiosities/
In addition to these, there are seven new items of project news we would like to share:
The fire next time? Generations, established/outsider groups and South African universities in crisis.
South Africa’s universities have been in crisis, while the character of the crisis and where its origins lie has occasioned considerable controversy. What has been happening and why? How do these protests compare with earlier student protests? Can the work of Elias help in thinking about these matters? To read more, please click here: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/thinking-with-elias/the-fire-next-time/
Analysing the Racialising Process
The evidence provided by the WWW letters conveys that a distinctive ’racialising‘ process has marked South Africa’s pattern of social change, around regulation and classification To read more, please click here: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/thinking-with-elias/analysing-the-racialising-process/
Elias and Eurocentricism
Using the Eurocentrism criticism of Elias’s work as a jumping-off point, this essay considers Elias’s ideas about the civilising process in relation to WWW research and concludes the criticisms are misfounded. To read more, please click here: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/thinking-with-elias/elias-and-eurocentrism/
Analysing Figurations
The concept of the figuration in Elias’s work is widely recognised as difficult to pin down. However, in analysing flows of letters over time and the interconnections between the people involved, the figuration is important in WWW research, and it has been thought about and operationalised in two different although connected ways. To read more about ‘how’, please click here: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/overviews/analysing-figurations/
Histoire croissée and entangled lives
Histoire croissée work to date has largely put its emphasis on intercrossings and entanglements at a macro ‘level’, but it is equally helpful in thinking about very grounded and local interconnections too, and this shows that such supposed ‘levels‘ in practice cannot be prised apart. Close associations and multiple exchanges of people, finance, goods, communications, exist within a society and link the people concerned in a range of ways, shown in fascinating ways in their letters. It is these entanglements that show the relevance of histoire croissée thinking to WWW research. To read more, please click here: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/overviews/histoire-croissee/
From the blog: New WWW website news
Much work has been done on the current WWW website – and also the forthcoming one currently being built in cooperation with HRI Digital. Every single one of the existing pages on the WWW website has been edited, some completely rewritten, and most also re-focused to fit into the new structure of webpages now finally taking shape as the beta-version of the new research-focused website to be hosted by HRI Digital. To read more about our progress, please visit the blog: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/new-www-website-news/
From the blog: Settler colonialism, in the traces
The arrival of the body of work concerned with theorising settler colonialism as a distinctive social-economic-political formation has greatly enlivened the study of former colonies, their histories, their relationships with the imperial metropoles they were ‘of’, and how these continue playing out in such societies now. However, there are also some troubling issues about much of the work in this approach and these are discussed. Please visit the blog: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/settler-colonialism-in-the-traces/
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2. The First Newsletter of the Biography Society is Online
Dear List Members
The Biography Society has just recently published its first Newsletter, providing information about its extensive recent activities. Because I do not send out pdfs to the list, I am instead giving you the link to the very impressive Biography Society website, which features the Newsletter, and many other resources as well.
Best,
Craig Howes
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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3. Biography vol. 40, no. 3, hot off the presses!
biography
an interdisciplinary quarterly
vol. 40, no. 3 • Summer 2017
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/37471
Editor’s Note http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677580
Articles
Andrew Jewell
Why Obscure the Record?: The Psychological Context of Willa Cather’s
Ban on Letter Publication http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677581
This essay provides an explanation for American author Willa Cather’s confounding decision to ban the publication of her letters, arguing that one must understand the specific personal and psychological contexts of the execution of her final will in 1943. Since the ban on publication has now been lifted by Cather’s executors, the essay uses ample direct evidence from the letters themselves to analyze the concerns that led to Cather’s choice. I argue that Cather’s ban emerged from a time of grief, physical pain, and growing hopelessness about the future while the world was at war.
Jayne Lewis
“Strange Imagination”: Valentine Greatrakes’s Healing Aura and the
Autobiographical Impulse http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677582
The controversial Irish Protestant healer Valentine Greatrakes’s 1666 autobiography is an under-appreciated text in the history of anglophone life writing, one that invites us to rethink the early history of a genre that has long been linked to a spatialized, specular, and mimetic model of the self. In contrast to the post-Lockean texts that posit that model, A Brief Account of Mr Valentine Greatrak’s and Divers of the Strange Cures by Him Lately Performed incorporates Greatrakes’s unorthodox method of healing by touch over time into the process of literary self-representation. As it plays between poles of distance and proximity, objectivity and contingency, shadow and substance the resulting textual “perform[ance]” may be historicized in terms of late-seventeenth-century conceptions of what Greatrakes’s implied reader, the pneumatic chemist Robert Boyle, called the “little atmospheres” that surround human bodies—“atmospheres” that anticipate Walter Benjamin’s modern notion of the aura but treat aura as a uniquely communicative aspect of the person. Greatrakes’s shamanistic practice binds his readers to his patients, thereby developing a therapeutic form of transpersonal, transhistorical, transgeneric personal identity uniquely realized in the literary text.
Anna Poletti
Putting Lives on the Record: The Book as Material and Symbol in
Life Writing http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677583
This article develops an understanding of the role of life writing in putting marginalized voices on the record by examining the material and symbolic history of the book and its relationship with life writing. Taking two key points in the history of the book as its focus, the article argues that “the record” is a material and symbolic performative site that authorizes a life writer’s claims to knowledge and experience. Through a reading of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1963 autobiography Les Mots (The Words) the article demonstrates the importance of the book to how life writers and scholars of life writing conceptualize the cultural, political, and social importance of telling stories from life.
Linda Zygutis
On the Lecture Circuit with Gertrude Stein’s Portraits http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677584
This essay intervenes in recent scholarship on modernism and celebrity that treats fame as a unidirectional performance by emphasizing the extent to which Gertrude Stein’s celebrity is the product of external artifice: particularly, the invocation of preexisting social types drawn from mass culture and circulated by publishers and promoters eager to market Stein to an audience expecting a very specific model of (feminine) success. Having become a best seller in no small part due to its “gossipy” look into the glamorous world of the Parisian art movement, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas transformed Stein into a bona fide star. But while Stein had actively courted commercial success, her first taste of celebrity came with a discomfiting loss of control. With so many people eager to “know” her, Stein felt her own sense of self slipping away. By pairing critical analysis of Stein’s own thoughts on celebrity with her often-overlooked Lectures in America, I argue that Stein’s lectures, presented as they were to audiences expecting the same “gossipy” depictions they received in the autobiography, are not only a subversion of the expectations associated with fame but a frank depiction of its failures, a self-conscious demonstration of the artifice of celebrity.
Reviews
Nostalgia and Auto/Biography: Considering the Past in the Present,
by Hilary Dickinson and Michael Erben http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677585
Reviewed by Janelle L. Wilson
In Haste with Aloha: Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma 1881–1885,
selected and edited by David W. Forbes http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677586
Reviewed by Riánna M. Williams
Self as Nation: Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography, by Tamar S. Hess
Reviewed by Michael Keren http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677589
Diaries, by Eva Hesse http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677587
Reviewed by Charles Reeve
Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf,
Victorian Bachelor, by Helena Michie and Robyn Warhol http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677588
Reviewed by Amanda Kotch
Postcolonial Life Narratives: Testimonial Transactions,
by Gillian Whitlock http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677590
Reviewed by Philip Holden
Contributors http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677591
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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4. Life Writing, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online
Life Writing, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Editorial
Editorial Note
Maureen Perkins
Pages: 1-1 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1408743
Introduction
Critical Interrogations of the Interrelation of Creativity and Captivity
Inge Arteel, Elisabeth Bekers & Eva Schandevyl
Pages: 5-8 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1396388
Articles
Transitional Justice and Cultural Memory: The Prison Diaries of Ernest Claes and their Literary Adaptation (1944–1951)
Eva Schandevyl
Pages: 9-22 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1239054
Creative Challenges to Captivity: Slave Authorship in Black British Neo-Slave Narratives
Elisabeth Bekers
Pages: 23-42 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1399319
(Re)writing Identities: Past, Present, and Future Narratives of Young People in Juvenile Detention Facilities
Mary Christianakis & Richard Mora
Pages: 43-58 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1138568
Doing Time: Temporality and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century British Prison Experience
Lucy Powell
Pages: 59-77 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2015.1118665
Chronicle, Autobiography or Literary Text? Italian Testimonies of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp
Chiara Nannicini Streitberger
Pages: 79-91 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1239055
Reflections
Traceable Beginnings: Reading and Writing Memoir in the First-Year Humanities Classroom
Ilana M. Blumberg
Pages: 95-106 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1244469
Be-yond Becoming: The Shared Features of Art-making and Constructing a Narrative of the Imagined Future
Debra Phillips & Elaine Lindsay
Pages: 107-119 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1296752
How to Drown a Husband: Five Bells, Four Chambers, and Saturday Nights at Sea
Susan Bradley Smith
Pages: 121-134 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1250613
Reviews
In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing
Supriya Kar
Pages: 137-139 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1200939
From Princess to Chief: Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina
Barbara Frey Waxman
Pages: 141-143 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1184999
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Francesca Arnavas
Pages: 145-149 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1289072
Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record
Jill Burton
Pages: 151-154 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.118865
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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5. TRANSNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY IN EUROPE (1/31/2018; 8/29/2018) Brno, Czech Republic
CALL FOR PAPERS
SEMINAR S57: TRANSNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY IN EUROPE
14th ESSE Conference, Brno 2018, 29 August – 2 September 2018
In the nineteenth century especially, biography has played an important literary and cultural part in the building of the national identities of the European nation states. Today, on the contrary, there is a discernible interest in biographies of figures of international significance – artists, scientists, politicians, etc. Such transnational biographies can be lives of historical personages belonging to linguistic and cultural areas different from the biographers’ and the readers’, or simply biographies highlighting the transnational connections and interactions of a person. This seminar, backed by the Biography Society network, would focus more particularly on biographies that forge and foreground transnational communities, which may be cosmopolitan, humanist, linguistic, religious, political, etc. Among related issues, this poses the question of the translatability of biography, not so much in terms of language as of cultural transference, for an individual’s life is bound to be written differently, depending on its reading community. The readability of a biography beyond the linguistic and cultural community in which it was originally written and published depends very much on the transnational relevance of the person whose life it relates. Some biographies focus on particular go-between figures whose lives are remarkable for the linkage they establish and cultivate between different national agents of cultural transference. Others present the lives of personages of universal relevance. There seems to be a ‘world biography’ category of the genre, in the sense of Auerbach’s Weltliteratur, which poses the question of the place and impact of biography in global studies. It is debatable whether transnational biographies can perceptibly contribute to building a sense of cultural belonging to one region of the world, like the European Community for instance, or whether today this has become an epiphenomenon of cultural globalization. This seminar on transnational biographies would welcome proposals for contributions offering general reflections on this topic, as well as related case studies. The longer versions of the papers will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal with the permission of the authors. The presentations will be limited to 20 minutes including discussion. Abstracts no longer than 200 words should be sent before 31 January 2018 to conference@biographysociety.org.
Conveners:
- Marleen RENSEN M.J.M.Rensen@uva.nl Assistant Professor, Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Joanny MOULIN joanny.moulin@univ-amu.fr Professor, Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Aix Marseille univ, LERMA, Aix-en-Proven
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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6. Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies (China) No.9, Autumn 2017, and a Call for Papers
Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies
No.9, Autumn 2017
Center for Life Writing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note
Special Section: Interview
“Writing for a Much Wider Audience”: An Interview with
Leo Damrosch …….Our Editor
Inspired by the Subjects: An Interview with Megan Marshall … Our Editor
Special Section: Shiji(Historical Records)Studies
Sima Qian and His Shiji Studies in Japan since the Twentieth Century …….Chen Lingling
History, Novel, Fable and Historical Biography: On the Literary Genres of Sima Qian’s Shiji…….Wang Chengjun, Zhu Ying
Theory Studies
The Life of the Mind in the Digital Age: An Interview with John Rodden ……. Henk Vynckier
Autofiction and “I”…….Philippe Forest
History of Life Writing
The Biographies of the Chinese Christians Composed by
the British Missionaries in the Late Qing Dynasty and
the Early Republican Period of China: An Overview …… Yin Dexiang
Lives of Ancient Famous Doctors: An Examination of Modern
Chinese Scholar Ding Fubao’s Medical Biography ……… Yang Yiwang
Discovering Overseas Chinese Intellectuals: Biographies of
the Nanyang Chinese in a Journal in Modern China … Wong Sin Kiong
Cultural Aspects of Taiwanese Life Writings Under
Japanese Occupation …….Yuan Qi
Biography Studies
Autoethnography and the Subalterns’ Discourse: The Writing of
China in A Daughter of Han……..Zhu Chunfa
The Moral Education Function of Samuel Johnson’s Lives of
the English Poets ……..Sun Yongbin
Autobiography Studies
Autobiographical Writing in Russia Since the Twentieth Century …….Ma Yilun
The Art of Paradox in Paul Auster’s
The Invention of Solitude …….Xue Yufeng
Life Writing Resources
The Christian Literature Society: The Publication and Its Appeal
of Translated Biography(1887—1919) ……….Hu Yan
Film Biography Studies
The Image Interpretation of Modern Chinese
Writers ……. Ma Chunjing
The Artistic Stipulation of Biography: Retrieving the Writing
Process of the Playscript Lu Xun: A Biography …….. Wu Couchun
Dare not Say Women Are Not Heroes: Biographic Films on
Qiu Jin and Biopic Theories…… Lunpeng Ma
Academic Info
Life Writing, Europe, and New Media: A Review of
the Fifth Biennial IABA-Europe Conference ……. Huang Rong
Instructions to Contributors
From the Editor
From the Editor
This issue features two interviews of prestigious biographers whose ideas are impressive and worth sharing. For example, Leo Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor at Harvard University and author of a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography, states the following: “I think the one piece of advice I would give is that a biographer should always choose a subject in whom he or she is deeply interested—and a subject who will repay the labor of close companionship for a considerable period of time.”
Professor Megan Marshall acknowledges that she spent 20 years writing her first biography for referring to archives is too time-consuming. However, she “learned patience from that experience.” Her second biography was less difficult because her subject’s letters and journals were in print. Nevertheless, she stated “I still felt that the documents I did find on my own or encounter in the archives made the book much stronger than if it had all come out of books,” despite the fact that her first biography was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and the second one a Pulitzer Prize winner. Choosing a proper subject is the precondition for writing a good biography, for a biographer is supposed to choose a figure he/she is interested in regardless of other reasons. It is recommendable to collect first-hand data in person rather than acquire them in the easiest or the most convenient way, for biography-writing is based on good patience. This is simple truth but valuable to biographers and worth bearing in mind.
Sima Qian’s Shiji(Historical Records) is the greatest work among China’s classical life writings and widely praised by the global life writing community. Though over 2,000 years have passed, its canonical role has not faded away. Biographers are still endeavoring for “‘the historians’ most perfect song and a Li Sao without the rhyme” as a writing aim. Chen Lingling’s paper gives an overview of Japanese scholars’ researches on Sima Qian and his Shiji. It is the first time to finish such a daunting job in China! Despite omissions (if any), Japanese scholars’ perspectives, methods and ideas are good reference. The modern significance of Shiji on life writing methods has been discussed in our first issue, in which Anglo-American scholars’ researches on the classic proper has been briefed on. It is meaningful to compare them with those of Japanese counterparts. Wang Chengjun and Zhu Ying challenge the literary genre of Shiji, including some long- standing controversial issues in academia. We welcome you to join the discussion.
Chinese scholars demonstrate continuing interest in classical Western biographies too. Samuel Johnson is the founding father of modern Western biographies. Some papers in our journal have elaborated on his Lives of the Poets. This issue sees Sun Yongbin’s analysis of the edificatory function of the work, a long-standing but ever-changing issue in life writing studies.
Life writing enjoys a broad range and there is great room for life writing studies. Precious academic resources lie untapped in many fields and several papers in this issue attempt to fill in the gap. Four weighy papers in the section of “History of Life Writing” are the results of major research projects at home and abroad, i.e. Yin Dexiang’s review of the biographies of the Chinese Christians composed by the British missionaries in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republican Period of China, Yang Yiwang’s research on Ding Fubao’s Lives of Ancient Famous Doctors, Wong Sin Kiong’s analysis of biographies of the Nanyang Chinese in The World’s Chinese Students’ Journal, and Yuan Qi’s discussion of Taiwanese life writings under Japanese occupation. In addition, many other papers expand the borders of China’s academic research, such as Ma Yilun’s survey of Russian autobiographical writing and researches since the twentieth century, Zhu Chunfa’s exploration of the concept of ethnographic autobiography for subalterns in A Daughter of Han, and Hu Yan’s study brings the Christian Literature for Society’s biography translation efforts in modern China to the life writing scholarship.
Since our maiden publication, young scholars’ innovation to autobiographical approaches have been notable. Xue Yufeng discovers the art of paradox in Paul Auster’s memoir The Invention of Solitude and discusses its primary forms and functions. New approaches are imperative, to the extent that the autobiographical studies are a hot topic in the modern academic community and cover many complex issues. Philippe Forest introduces a popular form of self writing in France, i.e. autofiction and briefs on the origination, history and status quo and his own autofiction works. France boasts the birthplace of literary ideas and French scholars have made essential innovations to modern autobiography and life writing theories, so the concept, theory and practice of autofiction deserve due attention.
It is difficult to define autobiography. New forms and new concepts continue to emerge. A few papers touch upon this issue. Henk Vynckier and John Rodden discusses broadly in their talk “The Life of the Mind in the Digital Age,” in which the important idea is that the interview is “a serious literary genre,” “veiled autobiography,” and “the act of listening as the softest of the sciences and the hardest of the arts.”
Three papers concern the topic of film biography. Ma Jingchun’s “The Media Interpretation of Chinese Modern Writers’ Image” focuses on five Chinese film biographies of writers in recent two decades and perceives their shortcomings in common. Wu Couchun examines the history of a failed film-making of Lu Xun: A Biography, though the film script had gone through five revisions. Ma Lunpeng compares six film biographies of Qiu Jin produced in China’s mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan in over six decades and conclude their styles as well as weaknesses and strengths. The wide discrepancy in the three papers’ topics does not matter in their arriving at a common conclusion: the production of film biography is difficult. There are multitudinous issues to explore in here.
The biennial IABA-Europe Conference was held in London in June, 2017. Huang Rong’s review of this event, “Life Writing, Europe, and New Media,” presents rich information new and thought-provoking to our readers, such as the digital turn of life writing studies, intersection between media and life writing, life writing teaching and the Great Diary Project. European scholars’ understanding of identity is good reference, for the identity in life writing is what Chinese readers are interested in. We have received the invitation from European scholars to participate in their discussions and we also welcome your papers on this topic.
To further adapt to the international academic standards and needs of the digital age, our journal will be reformatted since this issue. We welcome papers from all scholars as before. Please follow our new style to process your paper.
Aug. 2017
Call for Articles
Life writing studies, which have moved onto the central stage in the academia, have gained ever more attention both in and outside China. The biannual journal entitled the Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies aims to stimulate Chinese life writing studies, provides a forum for scholars of various disciplines both at home and abroad, attracts and promotes specialists in the field.
In an attempt to bring out the latest development of the research for life writing, the Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies seeks to, in modern visions and views, explore theoretical, historical, cultural aspects of life writing, focus on case studies, textual analysis, feature studies and deal with issues in the life writing practices. It also takes as its fundamental task expanding and enhancing the substance of life writing studies and stimulating live discussions of all the issues accordingly. The sections in the journal include interviews, book reviews, and biography-writings in the form of various media, in addition to articles. Long-length articles (10,000 Chinese characters; or 8,000 English words) or short essays (4,000 Chinese characters; or 2,000 English words) sparkling with insights and originality are welcomed.
The journal accepts submissions in Chinese or English. Articles and interviews should not exceed 10,000 Chinese characters, or 8,000 English words, notes included. Reviews should be about4,000-5000 Chinese characters; or 2,000-3000 English words in length. Submissions should be double-spaced, in a Times New Roman 12 point font; or in Chinese Song character small 4font. Paragraphs should be indented, rather than separated with a space. Footnotes are serialized on each page separately, with the sign ①,②,③…. Citations should be formatted according to the MLA Style or the standard sheet in the author’s field. Acknowledgments (if applicable) should be given in a footnote at the beginning of the notes section. Please include a 150-word abstract and a biographical note. The journal follows a double-blind peer review policy. Submissions should be previously unpublished and should not currently be under consideration by other journals.
The author is in charge of his/her own academic honesty. All images must be used by permission only.
Work should be submitted by e-mail in Word format to the email address: sclw209@sina.com
Two complimentary copies of the issue will be sent to the author when his/her work is published.
The Journal of Modern Life Writing Studies is based in SJTU Center for Life Writing. We welcome suggestions and proposals, from which we believe the journal will surely benefit.
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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7. CFP: 4th International Irish Narrative Inquiry Conference, April 19-20, 2018
4th International Irish Narrative Inquiry Conference
Narrating Neo-Liberalism in an Irish Context
Institute of Technology, Sligo
April 19th/ 20th 2018
Keynote Speaker: Professor Brett Smith
Professor Smith is the Head of Research in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences in the University of Birmingham. His research interests include disability, physical activity, health, and well-being; the development of qualitative research and narrative inquiry. He is the founder and former editor of the international journal ‘Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, & Health’. He has published extensively on narrative inquiry and sits on the editorial boards of many international journals.
Call for Papers
The 4th Irish Conference on Narrative Inquiry welcomes papers / posters / performances from across the social sciences and creative disciplines that have a theoretical, methodological and/or creative interest in narrative. The overall theme of the conference this year is on narrating neo-liberalism in an Irish context. Local, national and global stories and narratives tell of the impacts of austerity; of the historical silence on institutional sexism, racism, disabilsm, social class and homophobia; of the fluidity of storytelling and what is considered ‘fact’ or ‘fiction’. In this context we invite contributions that address the ‘social role of stories’: the ways they are produced, the ways they are read, the work they perform in the wider social order, how they change, and their role in the political process (Plummer, 1995). Themes can include:
- narratives of education
- gender and narrative
- narratives of resistance
- narratives of health, illness and the body
- developments in the field of narrative inquiry
- political storytelling
Hosted by Institute of Technology, Sligo, the conference is co-organised and supported by Maynooth University and the National University of Ireland Galway. The conference aims to bring together a wide range of Irish and international scholars to show case recent developments in narrative inquiry.
Abstracts for Papers / Performances / Posters (c300 words) by February 1st, 2018.
Submit abstracts to: Dr Jacqueline O’Toole: otoole.jacqueline@itsligo.ie
Please ensure you entitle the abstract clearly and provide a short bio. All presentations based on original research must have received relevant ethics approval. Completed contributions and “work in progress” contributions are most welcome.
- Full papers X 20 minute presentation
- Performances X 20 minute performance
- Posters
Conference Organisers
Dr Jacqueline O’ Toole, IT Sligo
Dr Grace O’ Grady, Maynooth University
Dr Anne Byrne, National University of Ireland, Galway
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Last updated: 26 January 2018
