Essays in Life Writing (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cardell, Kylie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book showcases a unique, innovative form for contemporary life narrative scholarship. It positions the essay as a unique nexus of creative and critical practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000505733
• Artikelnr.: 62641402

Autorenporträt

Kylie Cardell is Senior Lecturer in English at Flinders University, South Australia. She is the author of Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary , and editor (with Kate Douglas) of Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth. Kylie is executive member for the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) Asia-Pacific and co-directs the Flinders Life Narrative Research Group (Flinders University). She is the Essays editor for the scholarly Australian journal Life Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Writing (from) the Rubble: Reflections on the August 4,
2020 Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon 2. Will the Real Subject Please Stand Up?
Autobiographical Voices in Biography 3. Speculative Biography and
Countering Archival Absences of Women Clowns in the Circus 4. 'A Man of
Violent and Ungovernable Temper': Can Fiction Fill Silences in the
Archives? 5. Killing the Silent Witness: The Benefits of an Authorial
Stance as Interpreter in Future- focused Natural Biography 6. How to be a
Fan in the Age of Problematic Faves 7. Letter Writing and Space for Women's
Self- expression in Janet Frame's Owls Do Cry and Jane Campion's An Angel
at My Table 8. In Parallel With My Actual Diary: On Re- writing an Exile 9.
Metaphor and Neonatal Death: How Stories Can Help When a Baby Dies at Birth
10. Three Wheels on My Wagon: An Account of an Attempt to Use Life Writing
to Access Shared Family Narratives After Bereavement 11. Becoming a Traitor
12. My Obscure Career as an Aspiring Poet 13. Archive of the (Mostly)
Unspoken: A Queer Project of Caring for the Dead