Representing the best of international life writing scholarship,
this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives.
These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe,
Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than
two centuries. Showing fascinating connections between people,
places and historical eras, they unfold against the backdrop of
events and social movements of global significance that have
influenced the world in which we live today. Many of the authors
document and celebrate lives that have been lost, hidden or
neglected. They are reconstituted from the archives, restored
through testimony and reimagined through art. The effects of
colonialism, war and conflict on individual lives can be seen
throughout the book alongside themes of transnational connection,
displacement and exile, migration of individuals, families and
peoples, and recovery and recuperation through memory and writing,
creativity and performance.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Life Writing.
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