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Mackerras, Colin. "Red, autobiography of Ou Chaoquan." Asian Ethnicity 21, no. 4 (February 13, 2020): 587–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2020.1728518.
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Wahl, Sharon. "Erotic Sufferings: "Autobiography of Red" and Other Anthropologies." Iowa Review 29, no. 1 (April 1999): 180–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/0021-065x.5181.
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Fei, Yan. "Red, Autobiography of Ou Chaoquan, Ou Chaoquan (2019) (trans. D. Norman Geary)." East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 6, no. 2 (August 1, 2020): 313–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00034_5.
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Olson, James C., R. Eli Paul, Red Cloud, and Robert W. Larson. "Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas." Western Historical Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1998): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/971357.
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Tate, Michael L., and R. Eli Paul. "Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas." Journal of Military History 62, no. 1 (January 1998): 210. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/120414.
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Metel, Olga V. "Autobiography of the Introducer of the ‘Primitive Communism’ Theory, ‘Red’ Professor Mikhail P. Zhakov in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1933)." Herald of an archivist, no. 2 (2019): 545–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2019-2-545-557.
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The author publishes an annotated autobiography of the Soviet historian M. P. Zhakov (1893 – 1936). He belonged to the so-called ‘red’ professors, graduates of the Institute of the Red Professors, who in the first half of 1930s held leading positions in the Soviet science. He studied the history of the primitive society. He worked at the Institute of History of the Communist Academy and in the Moscow branch of the State Academy of the History of Material Culture. M. P. Zhakov's contribution to studying the primitive society was modest. In fact, he adhered to the concept of primitive communism, which was later harshly criticized in the Soviet science. In 1936 he was arrested as a Trotskyist and sentenced to death. The author contends that the scientific biography of M. P. Zhakov exemplifies the character of Marxist historians of 1920s-1930s and the vicissitudes of the emergence of Soviet research tradition. The article introduces M. P. Zhakov’s autobiography, which he wrote in November 1933 for the personnel department of the Moscow branch of the State Academy of the History of Material Culture. By its nature, the autobiography is a record keeping document, a matter of form. Its seems to have been meant as an apology. M. P. Zhakov underscored his revolutionary past and merits during the Civil War, while his scientific work was described almost drily. M. P. Zhakov’s autobiography of is a typewritten text printed on the both sides of a single sheet. On the first page there are two illegible corrections. While preparing the document for publication, the author have brought it into compliance with modern rules of spelling and punctuation, expanded all abbreviations (except conventional ones) in square brackets, and made all necessary annotations in order to explain the circumstances of M. P. Zhakov’s scientific career.
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Steve Gronert Ellerhoff. "Red Dirt Boogie: Autobiography in the Songs of Jesse “Ed” Davis." American Indian Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2016): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5250/amerindiquar.40.2.0109.
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PARK, Kyu Hyun. "CROSS-CULTURAL LITERATURE AND CULTURAL REPRODUCTION: THE CASE OF THE KOREAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY HANJUNGNOK." International Journal of Korean Humanities and Social Sciences 4 (January 24, 2019): 57–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/kr.2018.04.02.
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This paper is an investigation how cultural perception could be embedded in language and literature and how this helps different analyses on a same historical event. The article includes the comparison between a work of classical Korean literature, Hanjungnok (한중록), and an English-translated version of it, The Memoirs of Lady Hyekyŏng, translated by Kim-Haboush, and a work of a British novel, The Red Queen, written by Margaret Drabble. The comparison is to explore the language use regarding a perception of family relations and of gender in each version of writing. This paper concludes that authors’ and audience’s language and cultural background would influence on perceiving and analysing literature and its context so that each interpretation could be differentiated, even with the actual historical event.
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Stagg Peterson, Shelley, and Red Bear Robinson. "Rights of Indigenous Children: Reading Children’s Literature through an Indigenous Knowledges Lens." Education Sciences 10, no. 10 (October 14, 2020): 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci10100281.
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Indigenous children’s literature supports Indigenous communities’ rights to revitalization, and to the transmission to future generations, of Indigenous histories, languages, and world views, as put forth in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Drawing on Indigenous teachings that were given to him by Elders, an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper, Red Bear, interprets 10 Indigenous picture books published in Canada between 2015 and 2019 by mainstream and Indigenous publishing companies. These books were selected from the International Best Books for Children Canada’s list of Indigenous books and websites of four Canadian Indigenous publishers. We discuss the Knowledge Keeper’s interpretation of books that are grouped within four categories: intergenerational impact of residential schools, stories using spiritual lessons from nature, autobiography and biography, and stories using teachings about relationships. Recognizing the richness, authenticity, and integrity of Red Bear’s interpretation of the books, we propose that all teachers should strive to learn Indigenous cultural perspectives and knowledge when reading Indigenous children’s literature.
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Bon, Oleksandr. "Kharkiv Humanitarian Inteligence of 1920s in Ego-Documents of the writer Oleksa Varavva (Kobets)." Kyiv Historical Studies 12, no. 1 (2021): 167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2524-0757.2021.119.
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Despite long lasting research on the new independent state period, the study on Soviet Ukrainian intellectuals’ activities, the Ukrainian histography has not developed unified methodological approaches. The same thing happened to Ukrainian intellectuals and historical proces in 1920s. The article analyses earlier unpublished sources of a Ukrainian writer, editor Oleksa Petrovych Varavva (Kobets). The Ukrainian intellectual environment of the Soviet Kharkiv is being analysed. The important figures and an atmosphere of Ukrainian renaissance is being described. The main source of the research became “The Materials to Correspondence Autobiography” of a writer and editor, published by his son Oleksandr Voronin. This exceptional source for Ukrainian researchers has not been published yet. We also use published earlier “Autobiography” of the writer dated 1929 and sent to literature specialist Mykola Plevako. Oleksa Varavva, being in the middle of literature and art life of Soviet Ukraine — in Kharkiv (lived in “Slovo” building), left us striking notes about the character of activities of humanitarian intellectuals as well as the atmosphere in which they were working. This includes the information about Mykola Khvyliovyi, Yurko Tiutiunnuk, Oleksandr Korniichuk and others. Well-known figures of Ukrainian culture of “red renaissance” are being easily traceable in his mail correspondence from immigration in the USA in circumstances unburdened by censorship and thus of more value for scientific research.
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Murray, Stuart J. "The Autobiographical Self: Phenomenology and the Limits of Narrative Self-Possession in Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red." ESC: English Studies in Canada 31, no. 4 (2005): 101–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esc.2007.0053.
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Makley, Charlene. "“Speaking Bitterness”: Autobiography, History, and Mnemonic Politics on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier." Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 1 (January 2005): 40–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417505000034.
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In the Tibetan Buddhist monastery town of Labrang, located in southwest Gansu Province, China, the past is a heavy, and very often hidden, burden for residents and visitors alike (figure 1). This is not readily apparent amidst the bustling ‘nowness’ of commercial activities in this tourist site and model town for the profitable coexistence of Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and Chinese state-sponsored development goals. But as I discovered over the course of my fieldwork there in the mid-1990s, and again in the summer of 2002, for a population living with unsanctioned memories of the traumatic ruptures of the Chinese Communist-led revolution beginning in 1949, the ‘unsaid’ of history spoke loudly in implication—in implied dialogue with multimedia official histories, in the gaps in written and oral chronologies of events, in the revived performance of the lay and monastic ritual calendars, and in the dodges and silences of my Tibetan interlocutors during our many conversations about their pasts: “I don't know anything! I'm too young, you know!” (Tibetan [Tib.] ngas shes ni ma red, nga lo chung gi mo). Ama Drolma, a village matriarch in her late fifties, repeated this adamantly to me after I and my Tibetan woman assistant had asked her for a taped interview about local “history” (Tib. lo rgyus). She would hear none of our explanations about my interest in people's personal histories and insisted that I seek out old men, they would know about “early, early, early times” (Tib. sngan na sngan na sngan na).
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Rosi, Lina. "Gender and sexuality in contemporary Greek theatre: red-light landscapes and city legends." Historical Review/La Revue Historique 16 (April 1, 2020): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.22834.
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The article explores the representation of female sexuality, in particular prostitution and its association with urban landscapes. The subject forms part of a wider research venture examining the different ways in which contemporary Greek theatre depicts and discusses the female body, female discourse and women’s experiences. The analysis of recent productions focuses on two major points: first, on the mise en scène of the prostitute body and, second, on the way in which each production exposes the association between the characters’ biography and the geography and history of the city. Our aim does not lie in discussing the productions’ ideological views on the issue of prostitution and the contemporary sex industry, but in exploring the mode in which the stage narrative operates as a field in which the life story of these women is first heard and performed and then incorporated into the collective narrative of the city’s history. The productions discussed are Η τελευταία μάσκα–Fallimento (The Last Mask–Fallimento), based on a text by Kostas Logaras, adapted for the stage and directed by Thodoros Terzopoulos (2006); Η γυναίκα της Πάτρας (The Woman of Patras), based on a text by Giorgos Chronas and adapted for the stage and directed by Lena Kitsopoulou (2010); and Γκάμπυ (Gaby), based on Gabriella Ousakova’s autobiography, adapted for the stage by Anastasia Tzellou and Kirki Karali and directed by Karali (2015).
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Pexa, Christopher J. "More Than Talking Animals: Charles Alexander Eastman's Animal Peoples and Their Kinship Critiques of United States Colonialism." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 3 (May 2016): 652–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.3.652.
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Red Hunters and the Animal People (1904), an early collection of stories for children by Charles Alexander Eastman, a Dako$$ta author, was largely viewed by his critical contemporaries as a politically innocuous analogue to Kipling's Jungle Book Stories. Through consideration of the Dako$$ta oral-historical genre of hituᒋkaᒋkaᒋpi (“long ago stories”) and of Dako$$ta peoplehood more broadly, this article proposes an alternative view of Eastman as a resistance writer who cited a long-circulating Dako$$ta kinship philosophy to criticize the enduring conditions of United States settler colonialism—a criticism that would become more pointed in his later, better-known autobiography, From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1915). In viewing Eastman's animal tales as opposed to United States colonialism, we may see more clearly his innovative translations of Dako$$ta politics into narratives that both appealed to and challenged United States settler society. These challenges were made in relation to Dako$$ta conceptions of peoplehood, power, and gift.
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Martins, Helena Franco. "Escrever de volta: Anne Carson, Emily Dickinson." Remate de Males 38, no. 2 (December 19, 2018): 703–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/remate.v38i2.8652731.
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Anne Carson é poeta, ensaísta, tradutora e professora de letras clássicas. Uma das forças reconhecidas de sua obra publicada é o transbordamento singular que promove entre atos de escrita que costumam se distribuir por esses diferentes ofícios. Com uma liberdade e uma exatidão improváveis, misturam-se ali poesia, tradução, ensaio, escólio, crítica literária, conferência, libreto, entrevista e assim por diante. É de fato uma obra que corporifica de maneira admirável a tão falada reciprocidade que une o escrever, o ler e o traduzir. Proponho aqui uma reflexão pontual sobre os modos como esse enlace se dá em Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse. Exploro a hipótese de que uma forma quase paradoxal de atenção aos fatos preside os gestos de leitura, tradução e escrita poética que Carson encena e imbrica nesse seu inclassificável livro. Dou ênfase especial ao estatuto do poema de Emily Dickinson que a autora traz ali como epígrafe. É com uma tradução desse poema que abro a minha reflexão aqui.
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Wiebke Omnus. "Discoveries, Voiceovers, and Greek Poetry: the Colonization of Lands, Languages, and Literatures in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red." Journal of English Language and Literature 56, no. 6 (December 2010): 1077–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.15794/jell.2010.56.6.003.
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ROBERTS, MICHAEL B. "I coloured a map: Darwin's attempts at geological mapping in 1831." Archives of Natural History 27, no. 1 (February 2000): 69–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2000.27.1.69.
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In his autobiography describing his geology of 1831 Darwin wrote, “on my return to Shropshire I coloured a map of parts around Shrewsbury.” There are four extant maps in the Cambridge University Library, which fit this description. Two, at a scale of ⅞ inch to 1 mile, are of Anglesey and Llanymynech and are hand-drawn copies of Evan's map of North Wales, and are without geological annotation. The other two of Shrewsbury and Kinnerley have a scale of 1 inch to 1 mile and are copied from Baugh's Map of Shropshire (1808). These contain orange shading to the west of Shrewsbury indicating New Red Sandstone, but make no allowance for drift. The Shrewsbury map includes some attempted stratigraphic boundaries and marks four sites; A, B, C and D. These maps demonstrate Darwin's grasp of geology before his Welsh tour with Sedgwick in August 1831. They show his realisation of the need of a topographic base map, an acquaintance of the conventions of geological mapping in shading and the marking of boundaries. These maps form an early part of Darwin's considerable geological activity in the summer of 1831.
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López-Pellisa, Teresa. "El síndrome de Narciso y el autor como avatar postorgánico en las narrativas del futuro: Carmen Boullosa y Álex Rivera." Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, no. 27 (January 3, 2017): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2017271546.
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En este artículo se reflexiona sobre las posibilidades de las narrativas del futuro a partir de tres textos de ciencia ficción: El cielo de la Tierra (1997) y La novela perfecta (2006) de Carmen Boullosa, y la película Sleep Delaer (2008) de Álex Rivera. Estos autores proponen narraciones de realidad virtual en las que el autor es el protagonista de una autobiografía multimedia que le permite exhibir sus vivencias en la Red (síndrome de Narciso). Y los lecto-usuarios se conectan a los avatares de estos autores para vivir en primera persona sus narraciones. El lenguaje literario se transforma en un lenguaje polisensorial proponiendo otro tipo de literatura ¿del futuro? This article reflects on the possibilities of future narratives from three science fiction texts: El cielo de la Tierra (1997) and La novela perfecta (2006) by Carmen Boullosa, and the film Sleep Delaer (2008) by Álex Rivera. These authors propose stories of virtual reality in which the author is the protagonist of a multimedia autobiography that allows him to exhibit his experiences on the Net (Narcissus syndrome). And the lecto-users connect to the avatars of these authors to live their stories in first person. Literary language is transformed into a polisensorial language proposing another type of literature ¿from the future?
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Gabrielli, Elisa, Stefania Fulle, Giorgio Fano'-Illic, and Tiziana Pietrangelo. "Analysis of training load and competition during the PhD course of a 3000-m steeplechase female master athlete: an autobiography." European Journal of Translational Myology 25, no. 2 (August 24, 2015): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2015.5184.
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The first author, Elisa Gabrielli, has been a distance runner for many years, and then at a particular point in her career, she decided to move over to the 3000-m steeplechase. She was attracted by this discipline as she believed that it would be the appropriate discipline for her, due to the challenge it provided her, and the necessary knowledge and awareness she had through her studies. For reasons that are discussed in this report, the 3000-m steeplechase is a race that is more difficult to interpret and manage biomechanically and physiologically than most others. Combining this with her PhD allowed her to use a multidisciplinary approach to review the competitive experience gained in this discipline. During this period, she indeed not only deepened the technical aspects of her training, but also those that underlie this discipline, through her knowledge of sport, with particular reference to the female athlete. Through her technical research, she was able to take ‘snapshots’ of what could happen from the physiological point of view. With satisfaction, she improved her performance in the 3000-m race and in the 3000-m steeplechase. How? In particular, she worked on her running technique through specific exercises. She worked on de-contraction and posture, while saving energy consumption. She worked on the control of her breathing, and she took into account her prevailing heart rate. This was all in combination with the consumption of specific nutrients, as she tried to manage the production of lactate with the training of the red muscle fibres that are rich in mitochondria. Finally, she tried to improve her perception of strenuous work, by training at high altitude. This allowed her not only to improve her physical performance, but especially to improve her mind-set, which allowed her to be more confident in herself and her abilities.
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Manilo, Leonid, and Volodymyr Peskov. "The prominent Ukrainian ichthyologist and museologist Yuriy Movchan (1936–2021)." GEO&BIO 2021, no. 21 (December 30, 2021): 227–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/gb2118.
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A brief overview of the life and scientific achievements of Yuriy Movchan, an outstanding Ukrainian zoologist, museologist, collector of zoological collections, fish expert, and author of the ichthyological exhibition of the National Museum of Natural History NAS of Ukraine is presented. Biographic data are given based on the scientist’s personal file, which is preserved in the archive of the National Museum of Natural History NAS of Ukraine, as well as according to his autobiography published in the jubilee volume of the Proceedings of the Zoological Museum (Vol. 50, 2019). In the context of Yuriy Movchan’s scientific achievements, a list of his main publications is given, including handbooks, scientific monographs, catalogues, and guides to the zoological museum. Yuriy Movchan’s creative life was practically entirely related to the zoological museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Working in the zoological museum, Yuriy Vasyliovych has grown from museum attendant to a prominent ichthyologist, specialist of fish fauna of all kinds of water bodies of Ukraine, including inland and marine waters, aborigine and adventive fauna components, rare and industrial fishes, etc. The fish collection of NMNH includes more than 47 740 specimens of 567 fishes collected by Yu. Movchan personally and with fellow scientists. Yu. Movchan paid a great deal of attention to the conservation of rare and threatened species of Ukraine’s fish fauna. Voluntarily he worked as academic secretary of the zoological section at the National Commission on the Red Data Book of Ukraine, coordinated and edited the chapter ‘Cyclostomes and Fishes,’ authored 11 species reviews in the second (1994) and 24 in the third (2009) edition of the Red Data Book of Ukraine. His most cited works are presented. Yuriy Movchan worked until his last days, even when he was chained to his wheelchair, completing the editing of the second edition of his fundamental work ‘Fishes of Ukraine’ and seeking an opportunity to publish it. His late publications are devoted to the history of creation of the zoological exhibition and scientific collection of cyclostomes and fishes of NMNH.
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Ruiz, Pablo I. Ampuero. "Chaoquan, Ou: Red. Autobiography of Ou Chaoquan. (Transl. by D. Norman Geary) London: Austin Macauley Publishers, 2019, 290 pp. ISBN 978-1-5289125-8-7. Price: € 14,99." Anthropos 116, no. 1 (2021): 219–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2021-1-219.
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Stern, Pnina. "Life of Josephus: The Autobiography of Flavius Josephus." Journal for the Study of Judaism 41, no. 1 (2010): 63–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/004722110x12580045809786.
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AbstractThe autobiographic work of Flavius Josephus Life of Josephus (further Life), which focuses on the man Josephus, was exceptional in the Jewish literature of that time. An inquiry into the structure of Life, its components, contents, and the way Josephus described himself both as an individual and as a public figure indicates that Josephus wrote his autobiography in a manner that would suit the social and political criteria of the Roman society, within which he lived when he wrote this work. Josephus’ explanations of Jewish concepts in Life and the findings of our inquiry show that he intended his work to be read mainly by foreign readers, and moreover, that he wanted to be perceived as a positive public figure fitting the standards prevailing in their culture.
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Menu, Jean-Christophe, and Fabrice Neaud. "Autobiography." European Comic Art 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 41–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/eca.2020.140104.
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In this email exchange, Jean-Christophe Menu inveighs against the deterioration of comics autobiography into a formulaic ‘genre’. Fabrice Neaud maintains that the autobiographical enterprise is necessarily a dangerous undertaking in which a precarious subject comes into being, unlike the ‘proximate’ autobiography featuring a ready-made persona in search of peer approval. He employs a Darwinist evolutionary metaphor to demonstrate the colonisation of the ecological niche that houses comics autobiography by an ‘autobiography-lite’ better adapted to the market. He details the criticisms that have been made of his work (‘egotistical’, or formally over-conservative) and laments the tendency to equate artless scribbles with ‘sincerity’. Menu regrets that a distanced and selective portrayal of family life can be read as invasive of privacy, with devastating legal consequences.
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Menu, Jean-Christophe, and Fabrice Neaud. "Autobiography." European Comic Art 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 41–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/eca.2021.140104.
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In this email exchange, Jean-Christophe Menu inveighs against the deterioration of comics autobiography into a formulaic ‘genre’. Fabrice Neaud maintains that the autobiographical enterprise is necessarily a dangerous undertaking in which a precarious subject comes into being, unlike the ‘proximate’ autobiography featuring a ready-made persona in search of peer approval. He employs a Darwinist evolutionary metaphor to demonstrate the colonisation of the ecological niche that houses comics autobiography by an ‘autobiography-lite’ better adapted to the market. He details the criticisms that have been made of his work (‘egotistical’, or formally over-conservative) and laments the tendency to equate artless scribbles with ‘sincerity’. Menu regrets that a distanced and selective portrayal of family life can be read as invasive of privacy, with devastating legal consequences.
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Coté, Amy. "“A Handful of Loose Beads”." Nineteenth-Century Literature 75, no. 4 (March 1, 2021): 473–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2021.75.4.473.
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Amy Coté, “‘A Handful of Loose Beads’: Catholicism and the Fictional Autobiography in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette” (pp. 473–494) This essay considers the influence of confession as a Catholic liturgical sacrament and as a literary genre informing the fictional autobiography in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853). In her earlier novel Jane Eyre (1847), Brontë used the tradition of Protestant spiritual autobiography as a literary genre focused on the individual’s spiritual development. Villette, written as it was at the height of a wave of anti-Catholic sentiment in England in the 1840s and 1850s, has understandably been read as a nationalistic rebuke of Catholicism. This essay complicates this narrative, and shows how Brontë looks to Catholic liturgical traditions, most notably the sacrament of confession, to trouble the generic conventions of the Protestant spiritual autobiography and, by extension, of fictional autobiography.
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Clark, Matthew. "Book Review of Biography of a Yogi (Foxen, 2017)." Journal of Yoga Studies 3 (2020): 93–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.34000/joys.2020.v3.005.
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Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga. Anya P. Foxen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 238 pages. First published in 1946, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda has to date sold over four million copies. It is by far Yogananda’s most popular book and has been translated into thirty-three languages. Aside from South Asian religio-philosophical texts, Autobiography of a Yogi is perhaps the most widely read publication on the life of a yogi of all time.
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Bertolacci, Amos. "From al-Kindī to al-Fārābī: Avicenna's Progressive Knowledge of Aristotle's Metaphysics according to his Autobiography." Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 11, no. 2 (September 2001): 257–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0957423901001114.
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The autobiography witnesses a significant evolution in Avicenna's approach to Aristotle's Metaphysics during the years of his education. It clearly shows that, at a certain point of his philosophical training, Avicenna faced the entire text of the Metaphysics, was puzzled by its extent and complexity, and found in a treatise by al-Fārābī a guide for its understanding. But, albeit less perspicuously, the autobiography also suggests that this was not Avicenna's first encounter with the Metaphysics. Avicenna dealt with Aristotle's work in a previous stage of his studies as well. Then, however, he did not read the Metaphysics in its entirety, but, rather, focused only on its essential parts and some commentaries thereupon. The parts of the Metaphysics that Avicenna read in this earlier stage were books Alpha Elatton and Lambda, as constituting the natural theology of Aristotle's work. He neglected, on the contrary, the books corresponding to its ontological part. The special attention to Alpha Elatton and Lambda and the close connection between these two books in a theological context were peculiar traits of al-Kindī's approach to Aristotle's Metaphysics. Therefore, the evolving approach to Aristotle's Metaphysics that Avicenna's autobiography witnesses can properly be described as a passage from the Kindian to the Farabian way of interpretation.
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Rosenquist, Rod. "Copywriting Gertrude Stein: Advertising, Anonymity, Autobiography." Modernist Cultures 11, no. 3 (November 2016): 331–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2016.0144.
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This article traces the parallel, though in some ways inverted, early careers of Gertrude Stein and Helen Woodward: one a celebrated but little-read modernist author and the other a widely-read but largely anonymous copywriter. The first section draws comparisons between early twentieth-century changes in advertising copy and Stein's literary innovations, focusing on the techniques used by Stein and copywriters like Woodward to direct attention to ordinary objects or promote branded products by appealing to the individual reader's experience and subjectivity. The second section goes on to consider the contrasting definitions and public expectations of the author within the contexts of high modernism and modern advertising, respectively. The article concludes with brief analysis of the techniques of attribution, promotion and anonymity within the autobiographies of these two writers, suggesting that the contrast in approaches to life writing were largely due to how creative and corporate authors held highly contrasting public positions in early twentieth-century America.
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Eakin, Paul John. "What Are We Reading When We Read Autobiography?" Narrative 12, no. 2 (2004): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2004.0004.
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COOPER, JULIE E. "THOMAS HOBBES ON THE POLITICAL THEORIST'S VOCATION." Historical Journal 50, no. 3 (August 28, 2007): 519–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x07006243.
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ABSTRACTThomas Hobbes's Leviathan offers the fiercest modern indictment against pride. Yet seventeenth-century polemicists and contemporary historians of political theory agree that arrogance is one of Hobbes's stylistic signatures. Does Hobbes, the author, fail to practise the modesty which he preaches to political subjects? Against critical consensus, I argue that Hobbes devises protocols of literary self-presentation consistent with his arguments for modesty. I make this argument by way of a close reading of Hobbes's Latin verse autobiography. Although the autobiography is usually cited as evidence of Hobbes's vanity, I read it as Hobbes's perverse profession of modesty. In the autobiography, Hobbes shuns the role of hero, casting himself as a ‘poor worm’ whose endeavours are motivated by fear. Acute consciousness of mortality, rather than lust for renown, moves Hobbes to philosophize. With this account of the affective springs of his own philosophy, Hobbes redefines the political theorist's vocation. Breaking with traditions that define political theory as a vehicle for heroic self-display, Hobbes defines political theory as a vocation for ordinary mortals.
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Ingram, Susan. "When Memory is Cross-Cultural Translation: Eva Hoffman’s Schizophrenic Autobiography." TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 9, no. 1 (March 20, 2007): 259–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037247ar.
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Abstract When Memory is Cross-Cultural Translation: Eva Hoffman's Schizophrenic Autobiography — This article approaches the question of what happens when the text to be translated or rewritten as a result of cross-cultural experience is the self — how is the resulting autobiography to be read? Its answer takes the form of the theorizing of Deleuze and Guattari. It is contended that the potentiality characterizing the position of linguistic alterity experienced by bilingual authors, such as Hoffman, is the underlying assumption in Deleuze and Guattari's work. By identifying the connections between schizophrenia and minor literature and by delineating minor from minority literature, one can better understand the dynamics necessitating self-translation and the forms which cross-cultural writing can take.
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Zucker, Marilyn S. "Memory to Ink: Autobiography Project in Portugal." European Journal of Life Writing 4 (March 20, 2015): TL1—TL12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.4.154.
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This paper outlines a project centered on the teaching of Autobiography and Personal Narrative at the University of Lisbon. The course was an effort to ignite personal/collective empowerment through writing in a country where such writing has long been repressed by a variety of cultural imperatives. Students read autobiographical articles and book excerpts by well-known English language writers, read practically-oriented theoretical pieces, and wrote stories of their own lives prompted by their readings and discussions as they experienced and gained authority through authorship. Their growing self-advocacy registered as the course progressed, evidenced by the detail and reflection, authenticity and complexity of their written work. This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on 2 April 2013 and published on 20 March 2015.
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Holman, Beth L. "For “Honor and Profit”: Benvenuto Cellini’s Medal of Clement VII and His Competition with Giovanni Bernardi." Renaissance Quarterly 58, no. 2 (2005): 512–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ren.2008.0732.
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AbstractThis article examines the frameworks of artistic competition embodied in a 1534 contract for a contest of medalmaking between Benvenuto Cellini and Giovanni Bernardi, and in descriptions of other competitions, especially in Cellini’s autobiography. Strategies, decorum, and rhetoric of such competitions were embedded in notions of honor. In addition to personal and professional honor, court status and patronage were also at stake. By means of his competition with Bernardi and his medal of Pope Clement VII, Cellini hoped to recoup lost standing and favor, along with concomitant commissions and emoluments at the papal court — specifically, it is argued, an appointment at the Roman mint, where Cellini had been replaced by Bernardi in 1534. Cellini, however, was never rehabilitated at Clement’s court, and within days of the death of his patron, he murdered Pompeo de’ Capitaneis, the rival goldsmith whom he blamed for his loss of honor and profit.
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Brunvand, Amy. "The Poetry of Government Information." DttP: Documents to the People 47, no. 2 (June 17, 2019): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v47i2.7033.
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Anne Carson’s Autobiograpy of Red is one of those beloved poetry books that everyone kept telling me to read, but somehow I never got around to it until recently. Imagine my surprise to find government documents librarianship at the crux of the story! In Carson’s poetic novel, our hero Geryon is so full of artistic and erotic passion that he appears as a winged red monster. After he is dumped by a lover, “Geryon’s life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste,” a poetic dark-night-of-the-soul rendered metaphorically as a job shelving government documents in a joyless library basement. The forlorn, distinctly unpoetic texts are stored on shelves labeled in all caps, “EXTINGUISH LIGHT WHEN NOT IN USE.” This accuracy of detail suggests that back in 1998 when the poem was written Carson had most likely encountered an actual Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) collection. Nonetheless, she is kind to the librarians who occupy their dusty world willingly and consider Geryon “a talented boy with a shadow side.” Now that so much government information is online, this gloomy subterranean library may someday come to seem like pure imagination, a poet’s fanciful invention of an impossibly drab occupation.
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Ferri, Beth A. "Disability Life Writing and the Politics of Knowing." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 113, no. 10 (October 2011): 2267–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811111301006.
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Background/Context Scholars in disability studies in education, like scholars in other critical fields of inquiry, increasingly draw on a more interdisciplinary range of texts in their research and teaching, including art, fiction, film, and autobiography. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study The author asserts that contemporary disability life writing can and should be read with view to challenging a tangle of oppressive ideologies and destabilizing any claim to a normative or fixed center. Autobiography as a genre, however, requires a particular set of critical reading practices to fully illuminate myriad ways in which these texts can serve as important and politically grounded counternarratives to the dominant discourse. Read critically, these texts have the potential to unravel the myth of normalcy that undergirds so many of the exclusionary practices in education. Research Design Analytic essay. Conclusions/Recommendations A critical disability studies approach requires more than the infusion of different kinds of texts; it also requires the incorporation of diverse methods of analysis and theoretical framing of those texts in order to fully appreciate their transgressive potential.
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Griffin, Emma. "“Things I Can Remember about My Life”: Autobiography and Fatherhood in Victorian Britain." Journal of British Studies 61, no. 1 (October 27, 2021): 26–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2021.127.
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AbstractIt is now nearly forty years since John Burnett, David Vincent, and David Mayall compiled their invaluable and much-used three-volume finding aid, The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography (1984–1989), and established working-class autobiography as an important documentary source for exploring the lives of the working poor. Life writing now forms the basis of historical research into areas such as the emotions and domestic life that had hardly been imagined at the time that the annotated bibliography was produced. Yet as research into working-class autobiography has extended into new domains of enquiry, there has been less innovation in methodology. Historians typically use autobiographical material to pursue deep-reading strategies and unpack the meaning, experience, and identity of individual writers rather than generalize about working-class life more broadly. In this article I offer an alternative strategy: to take the autobiographical corpus and read it at scale in order to better understand fatherhood in Victorian Britain. Through a combination of intensive and extensive reading, I demonstrate that many working-class men failed to live up to expectations as breadwinners, and I explore the ramifications of that failure for the women and children with whom they lived.
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Kwak, Youna. "How to Read Barthes: Autobiography’s Intimacy Effect." French Forum 44, no. 3 (2019): 405–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/frf.2019.0036.
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Carpintero Torres-Quevedo, María Elena. "BREAKING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PACT: TRUTH AND LIFE-WRITING IN ALISON BECHDEL’S FUN HOME." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 24 (2020): 23–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ren.2020.i24.02.
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Much of the focus on truth in critical responses to Fun Home has surrounded the use of archival evidence and the access to truth provided by the graphic medium. This article will explore these issues as well as the relationship to truth established by the text’s metafictional devices and interactions with genre, particularly the genre of the Bildungsroman. This article will analyze the commentary the text provides not just on its own relationship to truth, but the role of truth in autobiographical texts in general, and in women’s and other marginalized groups’ autobiographical texts in particular. In the context of a critical landscape in which the veracity of autobiographical work by women is often subject to skeptical criticism, this article will argue that Fun Home acts, not as an exception to the genre of autobiography, but as a commentary on the gap between the presumed autobiographical pact and the historical, political, and aesthetic reality of autobiographical works.
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Gowers, Emily. "Fragments of Autobiography in Horace Satires I." Classical Antiquity 22, no. 1 (April 1, 2003): 55–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2003.22.1.55.
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Horace's first book of Satires is his poetic debut, and has traditionally been read as a reliable account of the poet's coming of age and arrival in society. Recently, scholars have taken a more skeptical view of the authenticity of this account and have argued that Horace's self-portrait is generically determined, with the author invisible behind a composite of comic stereotypes. Nonetheless, this collection of casual and scattered fragments can, according to a less literal and more flexible definition of autobiography, be regarded as a coherent life history or self-presentation. This paper attempts to rehabilitate and expand the notion of the autobiographical in Satires I, and indeed to treat autobiography as the driving impulse of the book. Close readings of individual passages, some of them more overtly autobiographical than others, reveal striking patterns in the telling of this life-story, with special prominence given to the elements of self-preservation, socialization, and development of speech. Horace repeatedly replays various formative acts of emergence - from speechlessness, from his birthplace, from Philippi - even though these are referred to only indirectly. Critical events that are apparently underplayed in the book - Horace's official pardoning and his rebirth as a civil servant - are signaled instead by means of metaphor, displaced activity, or moral advice; they can also be found concealed beneath the trivial-seeming or circumstantial incidents Horace records from his daily life. As for the more obviously autobiographical highlights of the book - Horace's moral lessons at his father's knee or his first interview with Maecenas - these are not just isolated "moments," but can be shown to conflate an entire aspect of the poet's development, linguistic, moral, or social, in all its different stages. Other passages, apparently dealing with non-personal subjects - human behavior, the progress of civilization, Roman history, or the history of satire - can also be read as narratives of Horace's own civilizing process.
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Bader, Françoise. "Autobiographie et héritage dans la langue des dieux : d'Homère à Hésiode et Pindare." Revue des Études Grecques 103, no. 492 (1990): 383–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/reg.1990.2486.
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Häberlein, Mark. "Nils Mattsson Kiöping, Travelogue and Autobiography 1647–1656. Coastal Africa, the Red Sea, Persia, Mesopotamia, Coastal India, Sri Lanka, South-East Asia. Translated and annotated by Martin Rundkvist. With an afterword by Carina Lidström. Stockholm, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Riksarkivet 2021." Historische Zeitschrift 315, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 789–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hzhz-2022-1462.
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Beshara, Robert K. "Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography." Language and Psychoanalysis 8, no. 2 (August 5, 2019): 80–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/10.7565/landp.v8i2.1600.
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Structure was a key signifier, and a logical quilting point, informing Jacques Lacan’s return to Freud, which amounted to his reinvention of the unconscious as structured like a language. Lacan read, and reinvigorated, Sigmund Freud’s classic texts primarily through the lenses of Ferdinand de Saussure’s structural linguistics and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structural anthropology—not mentioning Hegelianism (via Kojève), surrealism, and mathematics as other equally important lenses. The structure of subjectivity was the central question for both Freud and Lacan. While the former understood psychic structure in terms of topography, the latter explicated it through topology. What then of the structure of Ian Parker’s recently published book?
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Grigore, Rodica. "Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva: Autobiography, Exile, Violence." Sæculum 48, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/saec-2019-0032.
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AbstractConsidered “the great witch of Brazilian literature”, acclaimed as the best woman-writer of Jewish origin and the perfect example of an exquisite reconfiguration of European modernist ideas, Clarice Lispector is a fascinating author. This is obvious since her first novel Perto do coração selvagem (Near to the Wild Heart, 1943), a book that was awarded several literary prizes in Brazil, even if afterwards the text would be often ignored within the critical studies dedicated to Lispector. Compared to Borges and Kafka and even to the narrative strategies used by Virginia Woolf (apparently influenced by James Joyce’s stream of consciousness, even if Lispector underlined that she had not read Joyce’s creation much later) her book entitled Agua viva (1973) represents a perfect example of a very special kind of aesthetic experiment, underlying the importance of art (painting or literature) in its protagonist’s life. Without being precisely an autobiography, this book is obviously influenced by the author’s life and work, also expressing Lispector’s ideas on two important issues of 20th century Latin American literature: exile and violence.
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de la Parra Fernández, Laura. "Mapping the Self: Leonora Carrington’s Journey through the Mad Mind in Down Below." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43, no. 2 (December 23, 2021): 110–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.2.06.
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This article examines the Map of Down Below as a central element for understanding Leonora Carrington’s Down Below (1944). Carrington’s Surrealist memoir about madness, first dictated in French and then translated into and published in English, recounts her experience of being interned in a mental asylum during the early Francoist dictatorship in Spain while trying to flee from the Nazis in France. The text has often been read as a Surrealist autobiography contesting André Breton’s Nadja (1928). However, and without disavowing this reading, I argue that the way in which Carrington narrates her experience of madness is a means to gather knowledge about the world and the Self beyond the literary and institutional conventions of the time, namely, autobiography and eugenic psychiatry as part of the authoritarian state. Thus, I explore how Down Below, as life writing, illuminates a form of truth that deviates from the autobiographical tradition of the unitarian Self. Carrington’s found truth sheds light on other possibilities of experiencing—or creating—the Self, while she also challenges both the normative Francoist psychiatry and traditional life writing.
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Elrod, Eileen Razzari. "Harriet Wilson and the White Reader: Authority and Audience inOur Nig." Prospects 24 (October 1999): 297–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000399.
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From the time of its reissue in 1983, Harriet Wilson's 1859 text,Our Nig, has inspired critical discussion, much of which has concerned the matter of genre and related questions of the author's purpose and audience. When Henry Louis Gates first introduced it to contemporary readers, he called it both a “novel” and a “third–person autobiography,” further suggesting that it might be read in the context of sentimental novels, as he analyzed the book's interesting departures from Nina Baym's overplot inWoman's Fiction(“Introduction,” xi, xli–lv). Since then a number of critics have expanded upon and argued with Gates's preliminary assessment of Wilson's work and audience. Hazel Carby argues that Wilson writes to black readers, assuming that many of them would have shared her experience, whereas most other critics, including Claudia Tate and Margaret Lindgren, assume that Wilson is writing to a white audience, and negotiating the sense of difference between reader and writer. Barbara White and Eric Gardner, establishing that the actual “Bellmont” family, the Haywards, had strong abolitionist connections, suggest the complications of audience for Wilson. And Gardner, like Carby, suggests that Wilson would have assumed that her story would have been marketable only to a small group of Northern black readers, many of whom would have had similar experiences. Drawing on William Andrews's work with black autobiography, Beth Maclay Doriani describes how Wilson (and Harriet Jacobs) subvert the traditional genre of black autobiography, at the same time as they adhere to 19th–century conventions for publication and sale to white audiences. John Ernest argues that Wilson would have understood the ways in which her story would have been read and misread by proslavery forces. Drawing on William Andrews's discussion of Henry Bibb's narrative, Ernest argues persuasively for Wilson's extraordinarily complex understanding of her audience, to whom she appeals for an exchange based on a recognition of the essential mistrust of social groups.
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Avanesov, S. S. "Child in Time. Autobiographic Battles of Vladimir Nabokov." Critique and Semiotics 38, no. 2 (2020): 337–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2307-1737-2020-2-337-363.
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This article is devoted to the analysis of autobiography as a form of anthropological practice of yourself. The autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Other Shores” has been investigated from this perspective in connection with his other works. The philosophical side of Nabokov’s memoirs is considered here. This made it possible to formulate the main problems of the writer’s autobiographical work: the ratio of memory and imagination when plotting, the difference between fact and event in the structure of memory, the degree of individual freedom from coercion of objective historical circumstances, the possibility of discerning the meaning of one’s own biography long before the end of physical life. As a result of the study, Nabokov’s autobiography is characterized as a struggle against time for personal immortality. In this struggle, the writer is not so much expressing as creating yourself. He takes an active position in the act of remembrance, directing memory into the mainstream of the search for the meaning of his past, starting from early childhood. A person who remembers himself gets the opportunity to break out of the linear course of time, to distinguish repetitions in the past and read them as signs of his biography. Finally, reconfiguring biographic optics allows the author to come to a point of view from which he, through ordinary objects, begins to see not only the past and the future in their mutual transition, but also eternity. Thus, the writer avoids the main threat hanging over the mortal creature – the prospect of its annihilation.
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Fox, Mark. "STORIES TO READ THE SELF WITH: Autobiography, Spirituality and Religious Education." Journal of Beliefs & Values 15, no. 1 (April 1994): 12–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1361767940150104.
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Bader, Françoise. "Autobiographie et héritage dans la langue des dieux : d'Homère à Hésiode et Pindare (2e partie)." Revue des Études Grecques 104, no. 497 (1991): 330–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/reg.1991.2516.
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Vladimirov, Oleg N. "Plot-Forming Motives in the Books of K. Sergienko." Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology 16, no. 2 (2021): 103–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2410-7883-2021-2-103-115.
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The stories of K. Sergienko’s books make up the wanderings of heroes, as a rule, storytellers and participants in the events of personal and national history. In stories for teenagers, the ad-ventures of the heroes have the character of their initiation: “Kees Admiral Tulipovˮ (“Кеес Адмирал Тюльпановˮ), “Take us away, Pegasus!ˮ (“Увези нас, Пегас!ˮ), “Notebook bound in moroccoˮ (“Тетрадь в сафьяновом перплётеˮ). Or they correspond to the genetically related story about the prodigal son (“House on the Hillˮ – “Дом на гореˮ). In both cases, the characters' freedom of movement is largely motivated by their orphanhood. Most often, the main characters, young and old, travel incognito. This motive is introduced in the first sto-ry and becomes one of the plot-forming ones. An obligatory component of almost all books is the mystery of the female character. There are several secrets in “Borodino Awakeningˮ (“Бородинское пробуждениеˮ): for the main character – the secret of Berestov; he himself, who became Berestov in the events on the eve and during Borodin and does not call himself in the present tense; Natasha's secret; hoax Leppich. The unnamed hero of “The White Rondelˮ (“Белый рондельˮ) wanders incognito. In the same row, and the secret of the origin of Nastya, and remained a secret for her (“Notebook...ˮ). “Mysteriousˮ heroines in “House on the Hillˮ. The prehistory of the appearance of the Proud in the ravine (“Good-bye, ravineˮ) remains unknown to the reader. In some stories, the secret of the place is associated with the secret of the hero. Heroes travel with companions – Kees and Red Fox, Pochivalov and Osorgin, Berestov and Listov, Mike and Morris, Mr. Writer and Mr. Kitten, etc. The complex of obligatory motives in the historical prose of Sergienko, indicated in “Kees...ˮ, includes the motive of the hero's responsibility for the fate of the country (“Borodino Awakeningˮ, “Xeniaˮ (“Ксенияˮ), etc). This motive is associated with the motive of the he-roes’ dreams of the promised land, the ideal city and the motive of sacrifice. The tulip in the first story, not yet known to the Dutch, will turn into a flower with its miracu-lous properties in a number of works. The flower-bouquet motif is especially significant in the “House on the Hillˮ. In the same story, another motive of Sergienko’s prose comes to the fore – the star motive. Some of the peripheral motives become leading in individual books (the motives of the crimson beret, Holland, Mozart and Salieri, etc.). Homelessness, the instability of the heroes existence gives them the opportunity for self-realization, the chronicle of events – grows into a biography, and then into autobiography. Most of Sergienko’s works are based on the plots of a roguish, chivalrous novel and a novel of education, complicated by other plots. The story “Porcelain Headˮ (“Фарфоровая го- ловаˮ) testifies to the writer’s search for new ways in plot construction, caused by the rethinking of the romantic position of fighting against chaotic reality and rising above it.
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Abo El Nagah, Hadeer. "Autonomous Histories of Muslim Women Cultural Poetics; A Critical Reading of the Personal/Academic Narratives of Leila Ahmed and Amina Wadud." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 2 (January 4, 2017): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.2p.192.
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Louis Montrose's "Professing the Renaissance: the Poetics and Politics of Culture" renewed concern with the historical, social and political conditions of literary productions (1989). He suggested a platform through which autonomous aesthetics and academic issues to be understood as inextricably linked to other discourses. While autobiography is considered as a "writing back," I argue here that it is rather a strategic transitional act that connects the past with the present and remaps the future. Though a very personal opening, autobiography is seen as a documentation of public events from a personal perspective. Academic autobiographies like Arab American history professor Leila Ahmad's A Border Passage from Cairo to America; A Woman’s Journey (2012) and African American theology professor Amina Wadud’s Inside the Gender Jihad (2008) are two examples of the production of interwoven private and public histories. The personal opening in such narratives is an autonomous act that initiates cross-disciplinary dialogues that trigger empowerment and proposes future changes. In that sense, these autobiographies are far from being mere stories of the past. Conversely, they are tools of rereading one's contributions and thus repositioning the poetics and politics of culture as testimonial narratives. Employing post-colonial, Islamic feminism and new historicism, the aim of this study is to critically read the above academic/personal two autobiographies as examples of the private/ public negotiations of culture. It also aims to explore the dialogue between the literary, historical and social elements as they remap the future of women in Muslim societies and the diaspora.Keywords: New Historicism, Women in Islam, personal narratives, Amina Wadud, Leila Ahmed, post-colonialism, autobiography, non-white feminism