Lives & Letters Mailing: September 2019
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to another Lives & Letters Mailing. This month’s mailing contains information about:
1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
– Dear Mrs Schreiner, Dear Olive Schreiner…
– Olive Schreiner’s Poetics of Plants
– On ending without end, a diary thought
– Have a go, edit Wikipedia articles
– 11 November 1915: Dear Canon Mercer
2. Situated Writing as Theory and Method
3. Decolonizing Methodologies, 20 Years On: The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2019
4. Life Writing, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2019 is now available on Taylor & Francis Online
5. Qualitative Research Methods Courses at the University of Oxford – 2019 – 2020
6. Call for Papers: Touring Travel Writing: Between Fact and Fiction International Conference
7. Just published – Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly volume 42, number 2, 2019
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1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
There are five new items of project news we would like to share:
Dear Mrs Schreiner, Dear Olive Schreiner…
In the idle moments before going to sleep, I have been planning a letter to Olive Schreiner. Yes, she’s dead, but still – how to address her? Dear Olive, dear Olive Schreiner, dear Mrs Schreiner, or what? How not to be overfamiliar and respect the conventions she would have expected for proper behaviour, including the writing of letters. To read more, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/dear-olive-schreiner/
Olive Schreiner’s Poetics of Plants
A gorgeous 2019 short book by famed Schreiner scholar Dorothy Driver has just arrived from South Africa, Olive Schreiner’s Poetics of Plants. Around 45 high quality pages long, it is illustrated by brilliant photographs. It was published by AMAZWI South African Museum of Literature earlier this year, timed to be launched at the annual Karoo Writers Festival in Cradock in the Eastern Cape. To read more about the book, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/poetics-of-plants/
On ending without end, a diary thought
Working on the 67 years of Forbes diary has been a very immersive experience. The ploughing and hoeing and the counts of hamels and weights of wool, not to mention the illicit poaching of buck by local Boer farmers and occasional eruptions of events elsewhere like wars and strikes and rebellions, the illnesses and deaths of neighbouring farmers, the local first appearances of telephones and motor cars, are fascinating and engrossing. Standing back from this detail and its day-on-day unfolding, something interesting about time and sequence starts to come into view. To read on, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/ending-without-end/
Have a go, edit Wikipedia articles
Get fed up with some Wikipedia articles? Wish they were better? Wish there were more on lives and letters and other things that interest you? Well, there’s something practical you can do about this. To find out more about what this entails, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/have-a-go/
11 November 1915: Dear Canon Mercer
An earlier blog commented on a ‘missing’ letter, which was happened upon in working through the Forbes diaries but then its location forgotten. It is a letter by Kate Forbes, dated 11 November 1915 and addressed to Canon Mercer (Forbes 26b, 1914: 15/16 June, 4305-4306), and has been enclosed between the Forbes diary entries for 15 and 16 June 1914. The focus is on the letter itself, although it also comments on its relationship to the diary more generally. To read more about this, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/dear-canon-mercer/
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2. Situated Writing as Theory and Method
It would be great if scholars in diverse disciplines and interdisciplinary contexts would review this book, so if you or someone you know would be interested in doing this, please give the required information to Routledge.
For anyone interested in reviewing the book, please go to: http://pages.email.taylorandfrancis.com/review-copy-request
And please see the attached flyer for further information.
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3. Decolonizing Methodologies, 20 Years On: The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2019
Goldsmiths University, London, Wednesday 16th October 2019, 17.45-20.00, followed by a drink’s reception
The event has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation
#TSRAnnualLecture
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
The Sociological Review is delighted to announce that our 2019 Annual Lecture will be given by (University of Waikato, New Zealand) to mark the 20th year anniversary of the publication for her ground-breaking book. This will be followed by a response from (Goldsmiths, London).
We are delighted to be announce that our 2019 Annual Lecture will be given by Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (University of Waikato, New Zealand). It marks the 20-year anniversary of her groundbreaking book ‘Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples’, a book that remains as timely today as it was when it was first released. The continuing urgency to decolonize contemporary social science curricula and social theory demand a simultaneous decolonization of our research practices and methodologies. In this lecture, Professor Tuhiwai Smith will reflect on what has changed since the initial publication of her book and challenges ahead in continuing this important work. This will be followed by a response from Professor Yasmin Gunaratnam (Goldsmiths, London).
Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou, Māori) is a scholar of education and critic of persistent colonialism in academic teaching and research. She is best known for her groundbreaking 1999 book, Decolonizing Methodologies. She has been President of NZARE (the New Zealand Association for Research in Education), a member of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission, a member of the Health Research Council and Chair of the Maori Health Committee, Chair of the Social Sciences Panel of the Marsden Council and member of the Constitutional Review Panel. She has also been active in establishing Maori educational initiatives from early childhood to higher education, was an inaugural co-Director of the Maori Research Centre of Excellence, Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga.
Professor Yasmin Gunaratnam (Goldsmiths, London)
Yasmin Gunaratnam is a professor in the Department Sociology, Goldsmiths University. She has authored two books, ‘Researching Race and Ethnicity: methods, knowledge and power’ (Sage, 2003) and ‘Death and the Migrant’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). She is one of the co-authors of ‘Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies’ (Manchester University Press, 2017). She is on the editorial collectives of Feminist Review and Media Diversified and is a published poet. Yasmin’s academic writing has been published in Body and Society, Dark Matter, European Journal of Women’s Studies, European Journal of Social Theory, Mortality, Sociological Review, Subjectivity, The Lancet, Qualitative Social Work, and Poem. She has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, Open Democracy, The Conversation and Red Pepper.
Registration
This event free, but registration is essential. Places are allocated on a first come first serve basis.
Register Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZPAyYzpU8crrbbCXXo7YucQi_tnV0afB_WSSyTUhxnM/edit
Delegates are responsible for their own travel and accommodation unless they are travel bursary awardees
*Please note, TSR cannot be held responsible for any changes to the advertise program which is beyond our control.
Please note, there will be filming and photograph at this event
Eligibility for Bursaries
For the first time The Sociological Review is making a number of travel bursaries available for our Annual Lecture on a competitive basis to facilitate the attendance of those who might otherwise struggle to meet the costs of attending.
Bursaries are available for unfunded postgraduate research students and early career researchers in precarious positions as well as others on the grounds of need. SRF have 6 travel bursaries available to apply for (limited to £100.00). Should travel bursary awardees require accommodation, you are responsible for the organisation and cost of this.
Application for bursaries are available on the registration form. Deadline for bursary application is 23rd September 2019, 17.00 BST. Decisions will be communicated by the end of September.
*Please note, if you were awarded any of the following for the year 2019, you are not eligible for a bursary for this event: ECR conference funding award, a place on the ECR writing retreat, a bursary for Making your own Sociological Board Game, a bursary for Thinking on the Move, a bursary for Towards a Red Feminist Horizon and a bursary for Early Career Researchers’ Workshop: Decolonizing Methodologies.
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4. Life Writing, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2019 is now available on Taylor & Francis Online
Life Writing, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2019 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
History and Autobiography: The Logics of a Convergence
This new issue contains the following articles:
Introduction
History and Autobiography: The Logics of a Convergence
Jaume Aurell & Rocio G. Davis
Pages: 503-511 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1648198
Articles
Confessions of a Conscript, Disclosures of an Historian: An Autohistoriographical Essay
Gary Baines
Pages: 513-526 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633457
‘The History That Has Made You’. Ego-Histoire, Autobiography and Postcolonial History
Anna Cole
Pages: 527-538 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633249
‘Accurate History and Facts’ or Memoir?: Unravelling the Weave of History and Life Narrative in the Black Hills
Laura J. Beard
Pages: 539-551 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633247
History, Fiction, Autobiography: William Faulkner’s ‘Mississippi’
Lucy Buzacott
Pages: 553-566 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633248
Microhistory Narratives, Alternative Epistemologies and Epistemic Credibility: A Comparative Study of Haifa Zangana’s City of Widows and Leilah Nadir’s Orange Trees of Baghdad
Shima Shahbazi
Pages: 567-582 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633427
‘An Autobiographical Myth’: Recuperating History in Suniti Namjoshi’s Goja
Divya Mehta
Pages: 583-599 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633495
Exploring Human Subjectivity: Barbara Taylor’s Autobiographies
Bernard Eric Jensen
Pages: 601-615 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633250
Experience, Materiality and the Rules of Past Writing: Interrogating Reference
Kalle Pihlainen
Pages: 617-635 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633251
Reviews
Adventures of a Postmodern Historian: Living and Writing the Past
Robert A. Rosenstone, London, Bloomsbury, 2016, 224 pp., ISBN 9781474274227
Jaume Aurell
Pages: 637-640 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1430445
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention
by Jaume Aurell, New York and Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xii + 279 pp., ISBN: 978-1-138-93440-5
Peter Burke
Pages: 641-643 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1427403
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5. Qualitative Research Methods Courses at the University of Oxford – 2019 – 2020
*Apologies for any cross-posting*
The Health Experiences Research Group (HERG), at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford runs a highly-regarded programme of core qualitative research methods short courses, including the one-week Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-courses-in-qualitative-research-methods/introduction-to-qualitative-research-methods (QRM), Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-courses-in-qualitative-research-methods/introduction-to-qualitative-interviewing , Introduction to Analysing Qualitative Interviews https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-courses-in-qualitative-research-methods/analysing-qualitative-interviews, and
Introduction to NVIVO 12 for Windows https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-courses-in-qualitative-research-methods/introduction-to-nvivo (Note that our one-day Interview, the two-day Analysis, and our NVIVO courses are scheduled together so that participants can opt to book and attend any or all of the short courses in one visit to Oxford.)
Our courses are always popular and have few places, so please book early to avoid disappointment. For further information about each course and to book please follow the links above, or to book the courses directly, visit the Oxford University Stores<https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/short-courses/health-experiences-research-group/qualitative-research-methods-courses-university-of-oxford-health-experiences-research-group> website.
Please pass this information on to anyone who might be interested and/or display it on your noticeboards. We very much look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues on one or more of our courses in 2019 and 2020.
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INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING
18th November 2019 (13 Places Left
02 March 2020 (21 Places Left)
“The course has been fantastic! Many thanks for the clear and useful teaching – handouts, clips. All instructors were enthusiastic and very knowledgeable. Really brought qual methods to life. The experiential work was especially useful.”
This one-day course is aimed at health professionals, researchers, academics and postgraduate students who have little or no experience of qualitative interviewing. Everyone is welcome, regardless of research background. Previous courses have attracted researchers from a wide range of disciplines including health professionals, social scientists and educators. The only requirements are an interest in qualitative interviewing and the desire to conduct better interviews. The course provides hands on practical experience of different qualitative interviewing skills.
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ANALYSING QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS
19th -20th November 2019 (9 Places Left)
03rd -04th March 2020 (23 Places Left)
“It has been a real privilege to attend a course led by such high quality, high calibre speakers – sharing the theory but intertwined with the reality of their own experiences and interests and passions – making it meaningful and real for those of us who are researching in the real world.”
This two day course is aimed at health professionals, researchers, academics and postgraduate students who are planning to undertake or manage qualitative research using in-depth or semi structured interviews or those who have already collected qualitative interview data which they are unsure how to analyse. Everyone is welcome, regardless of research background. The course introduces the principles and practice of qualitative interview data analysis, with particular emphasis on thematic analysis techniques. It uses a combination of practical workshops, group discussions and formal lectures. The course also gives an overview of other approaches to qualitative analysis.
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INTRODUCTION TO NVIVO 12 FOR WINDOWS
21st November 2019 (11 Places Left)
05th March 2020 (14 Places Left)
This one-day course is delivered face-to-face in Oxford by the Health Experiences Research Group in the University of Oxford’s computing centre. Through a series of practical sessions, the course provides hands-on experience across a range of data types (text-based data, images, video, social media) and in using different techniques.
The course is particularly suited to those already working on projects with a qualitative dimension, doctoral students who are looking for appropriate software to support qualitative data analysis, and those with previous experience in using different qualitative analysis software packages.
While it is aimed at the needs of health professionals, researchers, academics and postgraduate students, the skills developed here apply to many settings – so everyone is welcome, regardless of their research or professional background.
Note – Some previous knowledge of qualitative data analysis is required for this NVIVO course.
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INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
16th-20th March 2020 (22 Places Left)
“This has been a fantastic week, an excellent combination of theory and practice. I feel much more confident to go back to work on my project. This should be an example to others of how to run a course. Excellent.”
Delivered over five days in Oxford, this one week long training course provides hands-on practical experience of different qualitative methods including in-depth interviewing, focus groups and ethnography, as well as developing skills in thematic analysis. It is particularly suited for people who are starting work on a project with a qualitative dimension, doctoral students at the beginning of their projects, and those who are thinking about using qualitative research methods for the first time. The course also provides a useful introduction or refresher for researchers, academics, or managers who are supervising students or those doing qualitative research projects.
While this course is aimed at health professionals, researchers, academics and postgraduate students, the skills developed here apply to many settings – so everyone is welcome, regardless of their professional or research background.
The course is very much weighted to practical sessions and participants will have the opportunity to present a research proposal, practise interviewing and observation skills, facilitate focus groups, and analyse data. There will also be an optional evening session covering video interviewing, and a guest speaker presentation, plus other activities.
Also please note our new Courses which will be open for booking soon (for more information please contact hergcourses@phc.ox.ac.uk)
INTRODUCTION TO META ETHNOGRAPHY – 11th December 2019
Led by Professor Catherine Pope.
WRITING GRANT APPLICATIONS FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH – 17TH January 2020
Led by Prof Sue Ziebland and Prof Catherine Pope.
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6. Call for Papers: Touring Travel Writing: Between Fact and Fiction
International Conference
Venue: NOVA FCSH, Colégio Almada Negreiros (Campus de Campolide)
Date: December 5-7 2019
In this year of 2019 the world is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and its literary legacy. Daniel Defoe’s work, which combines fact and fiction, not only marked the beginning of realistic fiction, but it also evidenced the intimate interrelationship between the novel and travel writing.
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Universidade Nova, Lisbon) and CELIS (Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand) join the celebrations by organising this international conference which aims to be a locus of debate on the many facets of travel writing, a research area that has emerged as a relevant topic of study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the last few decades.
Papers on the following topics are welcome:
- Anglophone travel writing on the Portuguese-speaking world
- Lusophone travel writing on the Anglophone World
- Travel writing and Robinson Crusoe’s legacy
- Travelling to write
- Travel writing and the novel
- Travel writing as report
- Travel and visual culture
- Travel writing, Humanities and the Social Sciences
- Travel writing, gender and power
- Travel writing, (post)colonial discourse and decoloniality
- Travel writing and (forced) migration
- Travel writing, imagined communities and imagology
- Travel writing and tourist culture
- Travel writing and (in)tangible heritage
- Travel writing and exploration
- Travelling as gentrification
- Travel writing, censorship and surveillance
- Travel writing and (auto)biography
- Travel writing and Otherness
- Travel writing, politics and ideology
- Travel writing and ethics
- Travel writing, mobility and conviviality
- Maps as travel narratives
- Travel, Children’s Literature and Young Adult Fiction
- Sound/Food/Smell/Touch/Visual/Ecoscapes in Travel Writing
- Travel writing in/as translation
- Utopian and dystopian travel narratives
- Science and travel writing
- History of Travel Writing
- Travel writing: theory and criticism
- Intertextuality in travel writing
- The rhetorics of travel writing
- Teaching Travel Writing
Keynote speakers:
Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University/Centre for Travel Writing Studies)
Catherine Morgan-Proux (Université Clermont Auvergne/Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique-CELIS)
Teresa Pinto Coelho (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
4th Keynote speaker: to be announced
Papers and pre-organized panels:
The conference languages are English and Portuguese. Speakers should prepare for a 20-minute presentation. Please send a 300-word abstract, as well as a short biographical note (100 words), by September 30th, to: ttw.dec2019@gmail.com and mzc@fcsh.unl.pt
Proposals for papers and pre-organized panels (in this case please include also a brief description of the panel) should include full title of the paper, name, institutional affiliation and contact details.
Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection will take place by October 10 2019.
Registration fees:
- Full fee: 100 Euros
- Students: 30 Euros (ID required)
Payment has to be made until October 20 2019. After this date proposals will no longer be considered.
Payment:
Payment by bank transfer
Payment by Pay Pal
Reference: CETAPS CONGRESSOS – 610245
BIC: IGCPPTPL
IBAN: PT50 0781 0112 00000006399 80
Tax identification number: 501559094
This is additional data your bank may require:
Account Owner: FCSHUNL – Research Units
Bank: AGÊNCIA GESTÃO DA TESOURARIA E DIV. PUBLICA, IGCP EPE
Address: AV. DA REPUBLICA 57 – 6.º ANDAR – 1050-189 LISBOA
For PayPal payments, use the email: dgfc@fcsh.unl.pt
Identify your payment referring to:
CETAPS 610245 International Conference (Touring Travel Writing).
Please add PayPal international taxes:
PT + EURO zone: 3,4% + 0,35€
Rest of the World: 4,90% + 0,35€
Full Fee: 103,75€ (PT & EURO zone)
105,24€ (Rest of the World)
Student Fee: 31,37€ (PT & EURO zone)
31,82€ (Rest of the World)
Please send a copy of your confirmed payment to: cetaps@fcsh.unl.pt
Event website: www.travelwriting2019.wordpress.com
Event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/561695847696394/
Organizing Committee:
Maria Zulmira Castanheira
Rogério Miguel Puga
Isabel Oliveira Martins
João Paulo Pereira da Silva
Scientific Committee:
Alexandra Lopes (Faculdade de Ciências Humanas — Universidade Católica Portuguesa/CECC)
Ana Rita Padeira (Universidade Aberta / CETAPS)
Carlos Ceia (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Gabriela Gândara Terenas (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Isabel Oliveira Martins (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Isabel Simões-Ferreira (Escola Superior de Comunicação Social – Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa /CETAPS)
João Paulo Pereira da Silva (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Jorge Bastos da Silva (Faculdade de Letras — Universidade do Porto/CETAPS)
Maria da Conceição Castel-Branco (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Maria de Fátima Outeirinho (Faculdade de Letras — Universidade do Porto/ ILCML)
Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Maria Zulmira Castanheira (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Miguel Alarcão (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Rita Baleiro (Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo da Universidade do Algarve/ CEC and CETAPS)
Rogério Puga (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas — Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CETAPS)
Administrative support:
Cristina Carinhas: cetaps@fcsh.unl.pt
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7. Just published – Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly volume 42, number 2, 2019
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly volume 42, number 2, 2019
Editor’s Note
Articles
Wounded Cities: Topographies of Self and Nation in Fay Afaf Kanafani’s Nadia, Captive of Hope
Hager Ben Driss
This essay presses the boundaries of autobiography to the field of urban studies. Fay Afaf Kanafani’s Nadia, Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman (1999) engages in the poetics and politics of the city. Kanafani’s story of her multiple displacements and dislocations is positioned in the flow of urban experiences. The text offers a montage of self and nation, and blurs the lines between the private and the public. This essay explores the archaeological, as well as the cartographic qualities of Kanafani’s work. While it reads the memoir as a metaphorical practice of autogeography, it draws on anthropological geography to investigate two major images related to urban spaces: the divided city and the gendered city.
Playing a Life in Nina Freeman’s Automedia Game, Cibele
Philip Miletic
This essay establishes a framework for studying automedia games—games that have an automedia narrative/disclosure—through an analysis of Nina Freeman’s Cibele. Using this framework, I argue that Cibele challenges the misogyny of a gamer culture that has a “vision of digital culture [as] . . . disembodied and immaterial” (Losh), and instead presents the play of video games as embodied, material, affective, and relational.
Reading, Writing, and Resistance in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Sarita Cannon
In her 1982 biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde explores how literacy can be a hegemonic tool of oppression, as well as how it can be transformed into an implement that furthers her development as a Black lesbian artist. Drawing on both the lessons of the American educational system and the linguistic legacy of African Diasporic women, Lorde creates her own discursive world, one that is marked by hybridity, multiplicity, playful subversion, and communal creation. She redefines literacy as a dialogic and recursive process of consuming and creating narratives within a woman-centered community.
“Bad” Biography Exposed!: A Critical Analysis of American Super-Pop
Oline Eaton
Biography has long played an important role within American life, and yet mass-market biographies remain underexamined. Theorizing so-called “popular biography” within twentieth-century American popular nonfiction and celebrity journalism, this article analyzes the genre’s conventions and its centrality to celebrity discourse.
Reviews
The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale, by James Atlas
Reviewed by Carl Rollyson
Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction, edited by Lucia Boldrini and Julia Novak
Reviewed by Alexandra Effe
American Autobiography after 9/11, by Megan Brown
Reviewed by Elisabeth Hedrick-Moser
Letter to My Father: A Memoir, by G. Thomas Couser
Reviewed by Emily Hipchen
The Selfie Generation: How Our Self Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture, by Alicia Eler
Reviewed by Teresa Bruś
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity, edited by William H. Epstein and R. Barton Palmer
Reviewed by Eric M. Thau
An Artisan Intellectual: James Carter and the Rise of Modern Britain, 1792–1853, by Christopher Ferguson
Reviewed by Anna Clark
Autobiographical Writing in Latin America: Folds of the Self, by Sergio R. Franco
Reviewed by Francisco Brignole
Getting Personal: Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age, edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale
Reviewed by Madeleine Sorapure
The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV, by Christopher Grobe
Reviewed by Lynda Goldstein
A History of Irish Autobiography, edited by Liam Harte
Reviewed by Taura Napier
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum, by Kathryn Hughes
Reviewed by Alison Booth
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama, by Frances Levine
Reviewed by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Clio’s Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians, edited by Doug Munro and John G. Reid
Reviewed by Jaume Aurell
The Decolonial Mandela: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life, edited by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Reviewed by Nick Mdika Tembo
Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography, by Heidi L. Pennington
Reviewed by Anne Reus
A History of Irish Working-Class Writing, edited by Michael Pierse
Reviewed by Muireann Leech
Canadian Graphic: Picturing Lives, edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley
Reviewed by Rocío G. Davis
Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), by Charlotte Salomon
Reviewed by Julia Watson
The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real, by Arnaud Schmitt
Reviewed by Bettina Stumm
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings, by Ella Shohat
Reviewed by Joyce Zonana
Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces, by Kathleen Venema
Reviewed by G. Thomas Couser
Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England, by Andrea Walkden
Reviewed by Julie A. Eckerle
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Last updated: 20 September 2019
