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When Rebecca Rowena Randall goes to live with her spinster aunts in Riverboro, Rebecca's aunts find her to be more of a handful than they bargained for. But even more surprising than the transition of Rebecca into a well-mannered young lady are the effects that Rebecca has on her aunts' humdrum lives. Rebecca, with her wide dark eyes and spirit that no walls can contain, will change their lives -- and the lives of everyone she meets -- forever.
This collection of short essays provides a rigorous, rich,
collaborative space in which scholars and practitioners debate the
value of different methodological approaches to the study of life
narratives and explore a diverse range of interdisciplinary
methods. Auto/biography studies has been one of the most vibrant
sub-disciplines to emerge in the humanities and social sciences in
the past decade, providing significant links between disciplines
including literary studies, languages, linguistics, digital
humanities, medical humanities, creative writing, history, gender
studies, education, sociology, and anthropology. The essays in this
collection position auto/biography as a key discipline for
modelling interdisciplinary approaches to methodology and ask: what
original and important thinking can auto/biography studies bring to
discussions of methodology for literary studies and beyond? And how
does the diversity of methodological interventions in
auto/biography studies build a strong and diverse research
discipline? In including some of auto/biography's leading
international scholars alongside emerging scholars, and exploring
key subgenres and practices, this collection showcases knowledge
about what we do when engaging in auto/biographical research.
Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies offers a series
of case studies that explore the research practices, reflective
behaviours, and ethical considerations that inform
auto/biographical research.
These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life
Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities:
Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in this 'age of
trauma', and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have
received little attention to date: partition narratives in India,
Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru, graffiti in
Tanzania, and the silent spaces of trauma in Chile and Guantanamo.
The contexts and media of these autobiographical trauma texts are
diverse, yet they are linked by attention to questions of who gets
to speak/write/inscribe autobiographically and how and where and
why, and how can silences in the wake of traumatic experiences be
read. These essays deliberately set out to establish some new
fields for research in trauma studies by reaching out to a broader
global context, into various texts, media and artifacts,
representing diverse histories with specific attention to different
voices, bodies, memories and subjectivities. This collection
addresses the contemporary circuits of trauma story, and the media
and icons and narratives that carry trauma story to political
effect and emotional affect. This book was previously published as
two special issues of Life Writing.
The contemporary 'boom' in the publication and consumption of
auto/biographical representation has made life narratives a popular
and compelling subject for twenty-first century classrooms. The
proliferation of forms, media, terminologies, and disciplinary
approaches in a range of educational contexts invites discussion of
how and why we teach these materials. Drawing on their experiences
in disciplines including creative writing, language studies,
education, literary studies, linguistics, and psychology,
contributors to this volume explore some of the central issues that
inspire, enable, and complicate the teaching of life writing
subjects and texts, examining the ideologies, issues, methods, and
practices that underpin contemporary pedagogies of auto/biography.
The collection acknowledges the potential perils that life writing
texts and subjects represent for instructors, with a series of
short essays by leading auto/biography scholars who reflect on
their failed experiences teaching life narratives, and share
strategies for negotiating the particular challenges these texts
can present. Exploring issues including teaching across genres,
analyzing writing about trauma, decolonizing pedagogies, and
challenging assumptions (our own, our students', and our
colleagues'), Teaching Lives illuminates what makes the teaching of
life narratives different from teaching other kinds of subjects or
texts, and why auto/biography has such a critical role to play in
contemporary education. This book was originally published as a
special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
The contemporary 'boom' in the publication and consumption of
auto/biographical representation has made life narratives a popular
and compelling subject for twenty-first century classrooms. The
proliferation of forms, media, terminologies, and disciplinary
approaches in a range of educational contexts invites discussion of
how and why we teach these materials. Drawing on their experiences
in disciplines including creative writing, language studies,
education, literary studies, linguistics, and psychology,
contributors to this volume explore some of the central issues that
inspire, enable, and complicate the teaching of life writing
subjects and texts, examining the ideologies, issues, methods, and
practices that underpin contemporary pedagogies of auto/biography.
The collection acknowledges the potential perils that life writing
texts and subjects represent for instructors, with a series of
short essays by leading auto/biography scholars who reflect on
their failed experiences teaching life narratives, and share
strategies for negotiating the particular challenges these texts
can present. Exploring issues including teaching across genres,
analyzing writing about trauma, decolonizing pedagogies, and
challenging assumptions (our own, our students', and our
colleagues'), Teaching Lives illuminates what makes the teaching of
life narratives different from teaching other kinds of subjects or
texts, and why auto/biography has such a critical role to play in
contemporary education. This book was originally published as a
special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
Young writers have historically played a pivotal role in shaping
autobiographical genres and this continues into the graphic and
digital texts which characterise contemporary life writing. This
volume offers a selection of pertinent case studies which
illuminate some of the core themes which have come to characterise
autobiographical writings of childhood, including: cultural and
identity representations and tensions, coming into knowledge and
education, sexuality, prejudice, war, and trauma. The book also
reveals preoccupations with the cultural forms of autobiographical
writings of childhood and youth take, engaging in discussions of
archives, graphic texts, digital forms, testimony, didacticism in
autobiography and the anthologising of life writing. This
collection will open up broader conversations about the scope of
life writing about childhood and youth and the importance of life
writing genres in prompting dialogues about literary cultures and
coming of age. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Prose Studies.
These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal
Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the
Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in
this age of trauma, and these essays turn to diverse contexts that
have received little attention to date: partition narratives in
India, Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru,
graffiti in Tanzania, and the silent spaces of trauma in Chile and
Guantanamo. The contexts and media of these autobiographical trauma
texts are diverse, yet they are linked by attention to questions of
who gets to speak/write/inscribe autobiographically and how and
where and why, and how can silences in the wake of traumatic
experiences be read. These essays deliberately set out to establish
some new fields for research in trauma studies by reaching out to a
broader global context, into various texts, media and artifacts,
representing diverse histories with specific attention to different
voices, bodies, memories and subjectivities. This collection
addresses the contemporary circuits of trauma story, and the media
and icons and narratives that carry trauma story to political
effect and emotional affect.
This book was previously published as two special issues of Life
Writing.
This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that
young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir,
letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of
independent and social media. The authors argue that these
contributions have been historically silenced, subsumed within
other literary genres, culturally marginalised or co-opted for
political ends. Furthermore, the book considers how life narrative
is an important means for youth agency and cultural participation.
By engaging in private and public modes of self-representation,
young people have contested public discourses around the
representation of youth, including media, health and welfare, and
legal discourses, and found means for re-engaging and
re-appropriating self-images and representations. Locating their
research within broader theoretical debates from childhood and
youth studies: youth creative practice and associated cultural
implications; youth citizenship and autonomy; the rights of the
child; generations and power relationships, Poletti and Douglas
also position their inquiry within life narrative scholarship and
wider discussions of self-representation from the margins,
representations of conflict and trauma, and theories of ethical
scholarship.
This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that
young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir,
letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of
independent and social media. The authors argue that these
contributions have been historically silenced, subsumed within
other literary genres, culturally marginalised or co-opted for
political ends. Furthermore, the book considers how life narrative
is an important means for youth agency and cultural participation.
By engaging in private and public modes of self-representation,
young people have contested public discourses around the
representation of youth, including media, health and welfare, and
legal discourses, and found means for re-engaging and
re-appropriating self-images and representations. Locating their
research within broader theoretical debates from childhood and
youth studies: youth creative practice and associated cultural
implications; youth citizenship and autonomy; the rights of the
child; generations and power relationships, Poletti and Douglas
also position their inquiry within life narrative scholarship and
wider discussions of self-representation from the margins,
representations of conflict and trauma, and theories of ethical
scholarship.
This collection of short essays provides a rigorous, rich,
collaborative space in which scholars and practitioners debate the
value of different methodological approaches to the study of life
narratives and explore a diverse range of interdisciplinary
methods. Auto/biography studies has been one of the most vibrant
sub-disciplines to emerge in the humanities and social sciences in
the past decade, providing significant links between disciplines
including literary studies, languages, linguistics, digital
humanities, medical humanities, creative writing, history, gender
studies, education, sociology, and anthropology. The essays in this
collection position auto/biography as a key discipline for
modelling interdisciplinary approaches to methodology and ask: what
original and important thinking can auto/biography studies bring to
discussions of methodology for literary studies and beyond? And how
does the diversity of methodological interventions in
auto/biography studies build a strong and diverse research
discipline? In including some of auto/biography's leading
international scholars alongside emerging scholars, and exploring
key subgenres and practices, this collection showcases knowledge
about what we do when engaging in auto/biographical research.
Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies offers a series
of case studies that explore the research practices, reflective
behaviours, and ethical considerations that inform
auto/biographical research.
Young writers have historically played a pivotal role in shaping
autobiographical genres and this continues into the graphic and
digital texts which characterise contemporary life writing. This
volume offers a selection of pertinent case studies which
illuminate some of the core themes which have come to characterise
autobiographical writings of childhood, including: cultural and
identity representations and tensions, coming into knowledge and
education, sexuality, prejudice, war, and trauma. The book also
reveals preoccupations with the cultural forms of autobiographical
writings of childhood and youth take, engaging in discussions of
archives, graphic texts, digital forms, testimony, didacticism in
autobiography and the anthologising of life writing. This
collection will open up broader conversations about the scope of
life writing about childhood and youth and the importance of life
writing genres in prompting dialogues about literary cultures and
coming of age. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Prose Studies.
Eleven-year-old Rebecca Randall is quite a handful - and now she's
leaving her beloved Sunnybrook Farm to live with her well-to-do
elderly aunts and get an education. But they were expecting
Rebecca's quiet, hard-working older sister instead. Can the
bright-eyed and talkative girl win them over...especially her
strict, rule-bound Aunt Miranda? Just as Rebecca's "grand spirit"
charms everyone in the story, it will captivate readers, too.
Abridged for easier reading and carefully rewritten, with "Classic
Starts[trademark]", young readers can experience the wonder of
timeless stories from an early age.
Kate Douglas captivated the world of erotic romance with her
groundbreaking Wolf Tales series, and she continues to push
boundaries in her new Spirit Wild series. Dark Refuge is the fourth
book in the series, following Dark Wolf, Dark Spirit, and Dark
Moon. "Kate Douglas manages to thrill you, entice you and leave you
in wonder. I really enjoyed the steamy romance and delicious
passion . . . in this dark and dangerous journey . . . I can't wait
to read more. 5 stars " -Krystal Malott for BTSeMagazine Emeline
Cheval has always felt a darkness in her soul, an emptiness she
blamed on her controlling parents. After years of unrest, Emy has
finally found some sense of peace by living quietly far away from
her family and her pack. But her world is thrown into chaos when
she discovers a fellow Chanku trapped in a human trafficking and
prostitution ring. Now Emy must turn for help to the pack she left
behind. On the outside Gabe Cheval has it all. Stunningly handsome
and strong, he's a prominent and valuable member of the pack-but he
carries a fear that he will never find a woman of his own. He
remembers Emy from his childhood, and he's shocked when he goes to
help her and discovers that the silly young girl has grown into a
sensuous and beautiful young woman-one who tantalizes him with the
sense that she could be the perfect mate to finally end his
loneliness. But even as Gabe and Emy come together to rescue the
captive woman and explore the undeniable attraction building
between them, the dark menace that lurks deep in Emeline's heart
threatens to push them apart. Through Gabe's loving and erotic
touch and Emy's open and passionate trust in him, they uncover a
horrible secret that could threaten the very core of the Chanku
hierarchy.
Kate Douglas captivated the world of erotic romance with her
groundbreaking Wolf Tales series, and she continues to push
boundaries in her new Spirit Wild series. Dark Spirit is the second
book in the series, following Dark Wolf. Romy Sarika has spent much
of her life suffering at the hands of a sadistic cult leader.
Twenty years earlier she watched him kill her mother, and now she
awaits the same fate. But when the self-proclaimed prophet orders
Romy killed, the wolf part of her rises up and for the first time
she shifts. Managing to save herself, she leaves death and chaos in
her wake. Alone in the woods and badly injured, Romy is found by
Jace Wolf and Gabe Cheval, two powerful and striking Chanku who
help her heal and simultaneously unleash sensual desires in her
that are as new and intense as her wolf-like abilities. But just as
Romy's opening herself to this new erotic world and the passionate
connections she's forming with both men, danger is closing in. Bent
on revenge and driven by bloodlust, cult members are pursuing the
trio. Discovery could mean not just Romy's death but destruction of
the Chanku way of life. With their lives at stake and the Chanku
race in jeopardy, the three must fight to save themselves and the
future of their proud race.
When two unmarried aunts kindly agree to take in their poor
relation, they find that young Rebecca Randall is more than they
bargained for. The opinionated youngster is definitely a handful.
Rebecca's lively and enthusiastic nature eventually win over all
doubters, but not before she nearly turns the town of Riverboro
topsy-turvy.
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