Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2020
- Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2020
Books
Ammann, Carole. Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics. Routledge, 2020.
Examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics, and documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political transformation.
Examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics, and documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political transformation.
Arfuch, Leonor. Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits. Polity Press, 2020.
Examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary cultures to reveal how challenging it is to represent traumas and violence, as well as how necessary that representation is as a political strategy for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being in common.
Examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary cultures to reveal how challenging it is to represent traumas and violence, as well as how necessary that representation is as a political strategy for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being in common.
Batt, Jennifer. Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet. Oxford English Monographs, Oxford UP, 2020.
Presents an account of Stephen Duck's life, work, and place in literary culture, encompassing new developments in laboring class writing, Hanoverian court culture, and eighteenth-century literature. Draws on contemporary archival sources, including eighteenth-century newspapers and magazines; manuscript verse and letters; and books and pamphlets.
Presents an account of Stephen Duck's life, work, and place in literary culture, encompassing new developments in laboring class writing, Hanoverian court culture, and eighteenth-century literature. Draws on contemporary archival sources, including eighteenth-century newspapers and magazines; manuscript verse and letters; and books and pamphlets.
Beers, Carla van. Diary 1944: A Return Ticket to the Past. Historisch Onderzoeksbureau De Huisdetective, 2020.
Unfolds the hidden history of an anonymous diary found in a display cabinet in a second-hand shop in The Hague, and weaves together two narratives: the historical tale of life in rural England during the Second World War and the tale of an artist's quest as an urban Dutch detective on the diarist's trail.
Unfolds the hidden history of an anonymous diary found in a display cabinet in a second-hand shop in The Hague, and weaves together two narratives: the historical tale of life in rural England during the Second World War and the tale of an artist's quest as an urban Dutch detective on the diarist's trail.
Belsey, Alex. Image of a Man: The Journal of Keith Vaughan. Liverpool UP, 2020.
Provides a comprehensive critical reading of Vaughan's journal, and offers a sustained argument on the constructed nature of the "artist" persona in early and mid-twentieth-century culture—and the opportunities afforded by journal and diary forms to make such constructions possible.
Provides a comprehensive critical reading of Vaughan's journal, and offers a sustained argument on the constructed nature of the "artist" persona in early and mid-twentieth-century culture—and the opportunities afforded by journal and diary forms to make such constructions possible.
Bradley Smith, Susan. A Splendid Adventure: Australian Suffrage Theatre on the World Stage. Peter Lang, 2020.
Spotlights the experiences and experiments of suffrage feminists in Australian theatre and their contribution to the development of international women's theatre of the period.
Spotlights the experiences and experiments of suffrage feminists in Australian theatre and their contribution to the development of international women's theatre of the period.
Brozgal, Lia. Absent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961. Liverpool UP, 2020.
Presents the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters, based on stories about the massacre that have survived over time, and discusses how they have been told and their functions as both documentary and aesthetic objects.
Presents the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters, based on stories about the massacre that have survived over time, and discusses how they have been told and their functions as both documentary and aesthetic objects.
Conn, Robert. Bolívar's Afterlife in the Americas: Biography, Ideology, and the Public Sphere. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Examines the afterlives of Simón Bolívar in the Americas, focusing on Venezuela, Colombia, the United States, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, and studies Bolívar as a rich site for questions of political and cultural identity, nationalism, race, and governance.
Examines the afterlives of Simón Bolívar in the Americas, focusing on Venezuela, Colombia, the United States, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, and studies Bolívar as a rich site for questions of political and cultural identity, nationalism, race, and governance.
Cooke, Jennifer. Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity. Cambridge UP, 2020.
Analyzes the "new audacity" of recent feminist writings from life, which are characterized by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries.
Analyzes the "new audacity" of recent feminist writings from life, which are characterized by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries.
Daly Carr, Jo Ann, editor. Such Anxious Hours: Wisconsin Women's Voices from the Civil War. U of Wisconsin P, 2020.
Places messages from women to soldiers during the Civil War in historical context, detailing what was happening simultaneously in the nation, state, and local communities.
Places messages from women to soldiers during the Civil War in historical context, detailing what was happening simultaneously in the nation, state, and local communities.
Decker, William Merrill. Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler. Northwestern UP, 2020.
Provides a comprehensive treatment of the ways African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of structural oppression, and examines how, in testifying to those conditions, black authors have transformed a national cartography that reflects white supremacist assumptions.
Provides a comprehensive treatment of the ways African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of structural oppression, and examines how, in testifying to those conditions, black authors have transformed a national cartography that reflects white supremacist assumptions.
Dekker, Rudolf. Plagiarism, Fraud and Whitewashing: The Grey Turn in the History of the German Occupation of the Netherlands, 1940– 1945. Panchaud, 2020.
Discusses two problems in Dutch history writing: plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct, and the current "gray" view of the Netherlands during the...
Discusses two problems in Dutch history writing: plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct, and the current "gray" view of the Netherlands during the...
