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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Life writing"”.
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Becomings-Unsettled? (Un) Braiding Settler-Treaty Life Writing
… it a story. It is another moment for practicing life writing as research. On an early December morning, a large group of Canada geese gather on Pasqua Lake in the Qu’appelle Valley, near a brief narrowing of the lake in the southwest. The lake ice is thick except for a peculiar patch of open …
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“Trans-ing: a Transwoman’s Story Beyond Transnormative Life Writing”
… traditional narratives of transition. In my writing and thinking, I work both with and against received parameters of life writing, seeking to move beyond society’s expectations of what constitutes acceptable, transnormative life narration, whether in terms of familiar subject matter, foci, …
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Autobiographical subjects: Disability and social identity in life writing
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Feasting on Whispers: Life Writing Towards a Pedagogy of Kinship
This work of life writing seeks to question the overpowering myths of progress, competition and domination that continue to story the educational landscape. In exploring the possibilities of metaphor as a possible response to these dominant myths, this collection of narrative and poetic pieces …
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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023
… Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023. The creative work is life writing based on my experience of living and working on a market garden, intertwined with nature writing, history, biography and other types of creative non-fiction. The critical essay examines the …
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Out of isolation: life writing in María Zambrano, Rosa Chacel and Felicidad Blanc
This thesis explores distinctive examples of life writing by twentieth-century Spanish women writers: María Zambrano (1904-1991), Rosa Chacel (1898-1994) and Felicidad Blanc (1913-1990). It takes into account an experimental autobiography, Delirio y destino, a literary diary, Alcancía, and a memoir …
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The Modernist Anti-Mental: Literary Life-Writing, Neurology and Medical Psychology, 1860-1939
… is considered in relation to D. H. Lawrence's writings which have the anti-mental at their heart. Chapter two examines the potential for the anti-mental to be spiritual and physical all at once, exploring various oceanic states and metaphors in the works of sexologist Havelock Ellis and writer …
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The house in South Asian Muslim women’s early anglophone life-writing and novels
… and historic sites in the early Anglophone writing of South Asian Muslim women. Reading the memoirs of Pakistani diplomat Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, <em>From Purdah to Parliament</em> (1963), in conjunction with three early Anglophone novels, namely, <em>Zeenuth Futehally’s Zohra</em> …
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Making the private public: (life) writing, shame and the abjection of homosexual sex in Wales
… attitudes toward homosexuality. John Sam Jones’s life writing works shed light on the complexities that surround possession of religious, homosexual and Welsh identities. This study contributes to a deeper understanding regarding public and private spaces in Wales, both of which are transgressed …
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Drifting in the Dead Zone in Cyprus: the mediation of memory through expanded life writing
… photography and live performance as well as writing. The thesis consists of this written exegesis and documentation of the performance Memory in the Dead Zone, the website MemoryMap, the film-poem DVD An Architecture of Forgetting and The Archive of Lost Objects, a book of poetry and …
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Reading and Responding: Finding and Making Meaning in the Life Writing of Diasporic Iranian Jewish Women
This project investigates the English-language life writing of diasporic Iranian Jewish women. It examines how these women have differentially imagined their diasporic lives and travels, and how they have in turn been imagined and accepted or rejected by their audiences. In the first chapter, I use …
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Pictures on the wall of my life : photographs to life writing to fiction, an ekphrastic journey
This study investigates the practice of writing a novel with its starting point in family photographs. It consists of the novel itself in latest draft form as well as a theoretical commentary on the writing of it. The particular focus for discussion is how the visual informs the written text and …
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Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing
… women and analyzes instances in literature and life writing in which female characters and historical figures negotiated the various restrictions they faced in social settings by “hiding in plain sight” and devising alternative strategies by which they might be seen and heard: by engaging in …
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The Politics & Poetics of Audience Creation in Contemporary Epistolary Memoir
… Gorgeous and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy as works of life writing that leverage the epistolary form to engage their direct maternal addressees and audiences beyond them in revision and reconstruction of identity. Secondary audiences are considered in light of Michael Warner’s “Publics and …
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The Days Are Gods: A Life in Place
<p>"Theorizing voice as a construct in life writing," Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson write, "has not yet been the focus of sustained critical attention." They whittle the myriad ways this idea might be approached down to two elemental questions: "How might we understand our attribution of a …
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From mountains to molehills : episodes from the life of a survivor : incorporating the exegetical essay, A mirror cracked : women, writing, healing
… to explicate and weave theoretical and critical writings about autobiography, particularly those from a feminist perspective, with the life writings of women who have experienced intra-familial child sexual assault. Finally, the exegesis explores and examines my own incest autobiography in light …
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