Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2014–2015
- Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2014–2015
Cinema is like memory in its ability to organize temporal experience and allow viewers to make sense of past experiences, even ones which they them-selves did not live.
Anders Bergstrom
We know that fondness, love, hatred, and other emotional reactions begin visually and then are translated to mental and sense language before they assume their final form.
Hussain Al-Mozany
What makes for a good life changes as we age …
Jim Dameron
But why doesn’t the consciousness of all our differences from one another—which we know how to register in the reactions that frequently attend opinion pieces that accompany the news—block a sense of affinity, and affinity even with characters who seem very unlike us?
Frances Ferguson
Phyllis E. Wachter, compiler of Biography’s annual bibliography for thirty years, continues to teach and conduct life writing research.
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Considers how photographers engage with the recording, storing, remembering, forgetting, narrating, and making public history.
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Identifies trends toward urban self-portraits as sociopolitical documentary, and psycho-geographical and autobiographical landscaping in nonfiction films since the late 1970s. [End Page 556]
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Tracks the development and Christian transformation of discourses of imperial men and women as sacred founders of the land.
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Relates the development of a Middle English ars moriendi to practices of cultural memory and conceptions of the proper ordering of self, household, and city.
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Examines how the memoirs of June Jorden, Edwidge Danticat, Melba Beals, Rosemary Bray, and Eisa Davis assert countermemories to official and nostalgic understandings of the civil rights and Black Power movements.
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Follows the emergence of memory culture through the transformation of the past from individual experience to collective construction.
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Argues that all of Coetzee’s work is strongly autobiographical, with the memoirs being continuous with the fiction.
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First scholarly edition of Brief Lives since 1898, and the first to include the complete text of all three manuscripts; with critical introduction and extensive commentary.
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Approaches the lives, works, theories, debates, and contexts of key twentieth and twenty-first century historians by reading their life writing projects as historiographical sources.
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Interrogates how understandings of humanity have been articulated in representations of African American experience.
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Critical edition, with formal, historical, and contextual introduction, to Page’s eyewitness narrative of Henry V’s siege of Rouen in 1418–1419. [End Page 557]
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Offers a poetics of literary biography based on how narrative operates in holding together a triangular relationship of lives, works, and times.
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