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This book showcases a unique, innovative form for contemporary life
narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic and
interdisciplinary field defined through attention to diverse styles
of personal and auto/biographical narration and to subjectivity and
ethics in acts of self-representation. The essay is a uniquely
sympathetic mode for such scholarship, responsive to diverse
methods, genres, and concepts and enabling a flexible, hybrid
critical and creative approach. Many of the essays curated for this
volume are by the authors of creative works of life writing who are
seeking to reflect critically on disciplinary issues connected to
practice, ethics, audience, or genre. Others show academics from a
variety of disciplinary backgrounds engaged in creative critical
self-reflection, using methods of cultural analysis, ethnography,
or embodied scholarship to address foundational and emerging issues
and concepts in relation to identity, experience, or subjectivity.
Essays in Life Writing positions the essay as a unique nexus of
creative and critical practice, available to academics publishing
peer-reviewed scholarly work from a variety of disciplinary
backgrounds, and a form of scholarship that is contributing in
exciting and vigorous ways to the development of new knowledge in
Life Narrative as a field. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal Life
Writing.
This book showcases a unique, innovative form for contemporary life
narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic and
interdisciplinary field defined through attention to diverse styles
of personal and auto/biographical narration and to subjectivity and
ethics in acts of self-representation. The essay is a uniquely
sympathetic mode for such scholarship, responsive to diverse
methods, genres, and concepts and enabling a flexible, hybrid
critical and creative approach. Many of the essays curated for this
volume are by the authors of creative works of life writing who are
seeking to reflect critically on disciplinary issues connected to
practice, ethics, audience, or genre. Others show academics from a
variety of disciplinary backgrounds engaged in creative critical
self-reflection, using methods of cultural analysis, ethnography,
or embodied scholarship to address foundational and emerging issues
and concepts in relation to identity, experience, or subjectivity.
Essays in Life Writing positions the essay as a unique nexus of
creative and critical practice, available to academics publishing
peer-reviewed scholarly work from a variety of disciplinary
backgrounds, and a form of scholarship that is contributing in
exciting and vigorous ways to the development of new knowledge in
Life Narrative as a field. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal Life
Writing.
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.
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.
Where has the personal diary gone - and what forms has it taken -
in the digital age? From the diary spaces of reality television and
the how-to diary and its audience of self-helpers, in the emerging
genre of the graphic diary or the online diaries of sex bloggers,
in the published diaries of war correspondents or the urgent
personal writing of Arab women under conflict, this book explores a
new wave in diary publication and production. It also provides a
fresh look at the diary as a contemporary form of autobiography. In
Dear World, Kylie Cardell is sensitive to how changes to our
notions of privacy and the personal - spurred by the central
presence the Internet has come to occupy in our daily lives -
impact how and why diaries are written, and for whom. She considers
what these new uses of the diary tell us about the cultural
politics of self-representation in a time of mass attention to (and
anxiety about) the personal. Cardell sees the twenty-first-century
diary as a vibrant and popular cultural practice as much as a
literary form, one that plays a key role in mass-mediated notions
of authenticity, subjectivity, and truth. Dear World provides
much-needed new attention to the innovation, evolution, and
persistence of a familiar yet complex autobiographical mode.
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