Life Writing

Papers
(The TQCC of Life Writing is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Writing (from) the Rubble: Reflections on the August 4, 2020 Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon14
I Want to Become: My (Own) Reference List7
Arriving on YouTube: Vlogs, Automedia and Autoethnography6
No Cure: Illness through a Lebanese Arab Queer Lens5
Embodied Dread in Covid-19 Images and Narratives4
Testimony and its Mediations in Life Writing4
From Diaries to Data Doubles. Self-Tracking in Dutch Diaries (1780–1940)3
Illnesses of Illusion and Disillusionment: From Euphoria to Aporia3
Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis3
Metaphor and Neonatal Death: How Stories Can Help When a Baby Dies at Birth3
How to be a Fan in the Age of Problematic Faves3
Body Work: Diarising Self-Display and Risk3
From the Inside: Indigenous-Settler Reflections on the Family uses of the Thomas Dick ‘Birrpai’ Photographic Collection 1910–19203
Becoming a Settler Descendant: Critical Engagements with Inherited Family Narratives of Indigeneity, Agriculture and Land in a (Post)Colonial Context2
‘Dear Diary, Dear Body’: Reading Embodied and Narrated Selves2
Narrating the Imprisoned Body in Life Writing from the Kamioka POW Camp2
Details Optional: An Account of Academic Promotion Relative to Opportunity2
Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode2
Truman in Beirut: Journeying Through Fear and Immobility2
Two Sides of a Coin: A Grief Memoir and its Readers2
Family History and Life Writing2
Manthia Diawara’s Autoethnographic Forays in Memoir and Film from ‘Counter’ to ‘Strong’ to ‘Beyond’1
‘The Synergy Between You’: Mothers, Nannies, and Collaborative Caregiving in Contemporary Matroethnographies1
The Tiger Skin on the Bannister (and Other Stories): Internal Dialogues and Parallel Autobiographical Process in a Reading of Wilfred Bion’s The Long Weekend, 1897–1919: Part of a Life1
Interior Matter: Photography, Spaces, Selves1
Treading Warily into the Lives of Others1
Interrogating the Ethics and Intentions of Family Life Writing Relating to the Holocaust1
Autoethnography and Beyond: Colonialism, Immigration, Embodiment, and Belonging1
Domestic Listening Across Generations: Irene Oore’sThe Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust1
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness1
Searching for Moon Chow: A Joint Journey1
Re-reading Immigrant Chinese Self-narratives in English (1980s to 1990s): A West–East Perspective of Philosophy and Literature1
Katherine May’s Wintering and the Care of the Self1
Autofiction and Testimony in Vigdis Hjorth’sWill and Testament1
‘A Present for My Daughter’: Gender and Posterity in Victorian Inter-generational Life Writing1
Gender Tensions, Taboos and Textual Acts in Melina Rorke’s Autofiction1
Speculative Biography and Countering Archival Absences of Women Clowns in the Circus1
Essays in Life Writing1
Theorising Lebano-Pathography: A Biographical Exploration of Medical-Cultural Pathologies1
Letter Writing and Space for Women’s Self-expression in Janet Frame’sOwls Do Cryand Jane Campion’sAn Angel at My Table1
Narratives of Translators: The Translational Function of Prisoner Writing1
Autobiography as Archival Act: Reckoning with Personal and Political Pasts in They Called You Dambudzo and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness1
Authenticity and Gender: Public Responses to Great War Memoirs by Nurses and Frontline Soldiers in Britain, France and Germany1
As Told by Herself: Women’s Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969 As Told by Herself: Women’s Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969 , by Lorna Martens, Madison, The University0
Writing Pretty: On Self-Cannibalism and Disfigured Tongues0
Emptying the Attic: The Family Archive in Transition0
The Book, the Camera, and the Concept of Dust in Life Writing by Patti Smith0
Gender, Trauma and Power in China Keitetsi’sLa petite fille à la Kalachnikov: Ma vie d’enfant soldat0
Duty to Presence Duty to Presence , by Lily Robert-Foley, Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex (France), Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, October 13, 2022, 174 pp., ISBN:0
‘A Stranger in the City’: Selfhood, Community and Modes of (Un)belonging in Muhammad Iqbal’s Self-Portraitures0
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel0
Survivor Memory and Rape Memoir: Chanel Miller’s Know My Name0
Jhumpa Lahiri and the Translation Memoir: To Write and Exist Beyond the Mother Tongue0
The Oxford History of Life Writing Vol VII: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945–2020 The Oxford History of Life Writing Vol VII: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945–2020 , by Patric0
Narrating Sexual Blackmail in Lebanon: A Present-Day Pathography0
The Man in the Mirror: Reflections on Dementia Caregiving in Lebanon0
The Aesthetic of an Orphaned Memory: Journeying Across the ‘Lit-Up Stage’ of Hisham Matar's Siena0
Wounded Poetry Hands: The Poetics of Agha Shahid Ali0
Strangers in a Strange Land: Jewish Memories of Istanbul in the Memoirs of Roni Margulies0
Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel , by Fiona J. Dolou0
My Diary Diary0
Establishing Narrative Voice and Encountering the ‘I’ Through Identity Creation in Life Writing0
(Re)collecting Myself in Arabic and English: Personal Reflections on Literature, Place, and Identity0
The Bronx in Short Trousers: Jerome Charyn’s Mischievous Childhood Recollections in The Dark Lady from Belorusse0
Death Rehearsal0
Narrative Agency at the Interface of Embodiment and Emotions: The North-American Epistolary Diary of Barbara Bodichon0
Historical Fiction and the Breton Landscape: Writing the Life of Jeanne de Belleville0
‘Who does he think he is: Jesus?’ J. M. Coetzee's Last Confession in Summertime0
Becoming Simple and Honest: Nietzsche’s Practice of Spontaneous Life Writing0
No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’: The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing0
Affective Ambush: An Autotheoretical Approach to Understanding Emotions as Useful to the Research Process0
‘You’ll Take My Place with the Boys’: Peadar O’Donnell, Storm and Republican Autobiography0
Place and Social Anxiety in Xianfeng Yi and Ying Yang'sDoctor Zhang and Doctor Wang0
Materialising the Decolonising Autobiography0
Correction0
How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers0
Spectator Curator: An Autoethnographic Tour of a Latinx in Canada0
True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays , by Eugene L. Stelzig, Lanham, MD, Boulder, New York, Lo0
Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography , by Judith Adamson, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024, 193 pp., ISBN: 9780228021030
My Mothers, My Others: A Conversation about a Hot Potato0
Traversing the (In)Visible Territory of Schizophrenia in HOAX Psychosis Blues : An Intersection of Life Writing and Graphic Medicine in Comics0
The Language of Food: Semiotics in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Gastrographies0
Handling Hazardous Biographical Materials: Dealing with Questionable Character Traits through Poetic Biography0
Writing the Hearing Line: Telling Family Stories of Deafness0
Where the Centres Line Up: Finding Myself in the Fabric of the Highlands0
‘I Am Not A Melodramatic Person’: Defining the Lyric Diary0
Life and Art: A Research and Practice Journey0
Reading (Like) a Translator: The Sensory Life and Travel Writing of Danish Literary Translator Anne Marie Bjerg0
Fantasy and Dissimulation in the Memoirs of Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926)0
Our Hearts are Restless: the Art of Spiritual Memoir Our Hearts are Restless: the Art of Spiritual Memoir , by Richard Lischer, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 370
Individualism, Collectivism, and Identity Politics in Palestinian Life Writing0
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity0
Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography , by Paul John Eakin, foreword by Craig Howes, New York a0
Scarred Skin and Wiggling Worms: What I Learned from my Eating Disorder0
Theodor Adorno and Life Writing in the Anthropocene0
My Family History: the Past and the Present0
Ta(l)king Back (to) the City—Fragments of Beirut and/in Me0
How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying , by Leslie Swartz, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 20210
Objects as Armour; Objects as Container: Form and Thing-Writing as Means of Balancing Disclosure in Life Writing0
Ficciones de verdad. Archivo y narrativas de vida0
Reflecting on Memory, Imagination and Place: Reading Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City Through a Cognitive Literary Lens0
‘Expand’: From Sur les bouts de la langue and Traduire en féministe/s by Noémie Grunenwald0
Playing Tennis in Beirut: Sisterhood and Transnational Aches0
Hip Hop, La Crónica and Epiphany in Mexico City: Performative Research, Methodological Identities and Affective Analysis0
Irish Women’s Confessional Writing: Identity, Textuality and the Body0
Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book0
Bitter/Love: A Mixed-Race Body Archive0
The Other Side of Absence: Discovering My Father’s Secrets0
Suicide in Nazi Germany: Transformative Family History0
Inhospitable Conditions: Hospitality, Kinship and Complaint in Maureen Freely's Angry in Piraeus and Mireille Gansel's Translation as Transhumance 0
Life Writing 2.0: Joanna Walsh, Technology, and the Politics of Sharing0
Experimental Life Writing—Special Issue Introduction0
American ‘Goddess of Mercy’ in the Nanjing Massacre: Minnie Vautrin and the Afterlife of Her Wartime Diary0
Unspoken: Experimental Life Writing and Child Narration0
Making a Narrative of Repetition: Diachronicity and the Second-Person Address in YouTube's Routine Videos0
Reading Objects, Watching YouTube, Writing Biography, and Teaching Life Writing: Student Engagement When Learning Online During Covid-190
Life Writing as Micropolitics: Prussian CVs at the Dawn of Bureaucratic Meritocracy0
Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed0
Writing Ourselves into Time: Stories of Indo-Trinidadian Women0
New York-letters : An Ode to New York, a Panegyric to Persia0
‘Walking the Indian Streets’: Analysing Ved Mehta’s Memoirs of Return0
On Being Impossible: Thoughts on Ethnicity, Embodiment and Kinship0
Intercultural Mediation in the Translation of the Self in Travel Writing: A Case Study of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper0
Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference0
A History of African American Autobiography A History of African American Autobiography , edited by Joycelyn K. Moody, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 399 pp., ISBN 970
‘To You, Who May Find Yourself in This Story’: What a Baker’s Memoir Taught an Emerging Education Scholar0
The Photographer as Autobiographer The Photographer as Autobiographer , by Arnaud Schmitt, Camden, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 294 pp., € 85.59 (hardback), ISBN 97830310880
‘An Awakening of the Senses’: Reading Julia Child's My Life in France as Gastrography0
Duping Someone Else’s Body: Life Story of a Body Double0
From the Psychoanalytic Personal to Cold War Psychwar: Martha Graham’s Modern Dance, Jungian Archetypes, and Allen Dulles’ Central Intelligence Agency0
Dissonant Discourses: Evelyn Scott and Cyril Kay-Scott’s Experiences in Brazil (1914–1919)0
Writing the Lives of Ordinary People—Opportunities and Challenges0
Our Bodies, Ourselves Translated into Brazilian Portuguese: A Study of the Impacts on the Translators0
Letter to My Father: A Memoir0
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women , by Leigh Gilmore, New York, Columbia University Press, 20230
Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused , by Anita Wohlmann, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020
Fleeing Father0
Editorial Note0
Deux étés (1997): The (Auto)fiction of the French Translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor (1969)0
Reading and Seeing Women’s Life Writing Through Adrienne Rich in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?0
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Georg Henrik von Wright: An Unexpected Friendship0
Neutrality Affected: Negotiating the Promise of Empathy in Interpreters’ Memoirs0
Ghost Plants: The Possibilities of Botanical Ecobiography0
Sickness of Separation: Reflections on Expatriation, Repatriation, and Motherhood0
Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography0
Dialogic Reading Spaces in Autofiction: Rachel Cusk’s Kudos0
Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality and Social Justice Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality and Social Justice 0
The Ridiculous Legend of El Gran Vázquez: Self-deprecation and Picaresque in the Autofictional Comics by Vázquez0
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction , edited by Julia Novak and Caitríona Ní Dhúill, with Eugenie Theuer, series edited by 0
On the Vulnerability of Memory and the Power of Storytelling, or How My Grandmothers Made Me a Historian0
Japan, the Ambiguous, and My Fragile, Complex and Evolving Self0
Echolation as Modulation: A Case Study of Chus Pato and Erín Moure’s Secession/Insecession , Accompanied by a Fan Fiction of Moure’s Work More Generally0
Drink the Sea: Twenty Years of Walking and Falling in Beirut0
Embracing the ‘Good-enough’—Teaching, Learning, Living During the COVID-19 Lockdown0
The Myth of ‘Wound’ Writing: The Multiple Surfaces of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow0
Life as Prime Minister: A Genre Study of Speeches Made by Australian Prime Ministers Following Leadership Spills0
James Joyce’s Dubliners and Nataliia Kobrynska’s Galicians: Concurrences, Mirrorings and Differences0
Resistance and Desire: Autofictional Satire and Intersubjectivity in Samuel Shem’sThe House of God0
The Role of Serendipity and Collaboration in Adding Texture and Family Context to the Career of Australian Educator Renée Erdos (1911–1997)0
The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’sThe Crippled Tree0
Journalling in the Currents of Yin and Yang: Adrift in the Chinese Academic Job Market0
Trans/national(ism) in Chinese Trans Memoir: Jin Xing’s Shanghai Tango and Lei Ming’s Life Beyond My Body0
Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland0
The Art of ‘Creatical Writing’: Unlocking Insights Through Creative-Critical Fusion0
Crossing the Bamboo Curtain: Occidentalism and the English Language in Cultural Revolution Memoirs0
Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Author Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Author , by Jeremy D. Popkin, London: Ro0
Autoethnography and Beyond: Genealogy, Memory, Media, Witness0
The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry , by Tamarin Norwood, London, The Ind0
Repeat the Important Words Until You Understand Them: Metaphor, Memory and Meaning in Anne Carson’s Essaying0
Reading, Race, and Remembering Childhood Abuse—Returning to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)0
Pulling out the Most Colourful Threads: Revealing and Weaving Positionality into Collaborative Life Writing0
A Trickster’s Tale: Autofictional Humour in Günter Grass’sBeim Häuten der Zwiebel0
On Learning to Love Your Mother-in-law: RememberingLa Ménagein Colonial and Postcolonial Algeria0
Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary0
Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History , by Barbara Caine, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 229 pp., ISBN:0
Correction0
Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives From the Enlightenment to the Digital Age Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives From the Enlightenment to the Digital Age by 0
The Life and Death, and Life of William Mackay0
Couples: A Collective Life0
‘Honesty of that Order Threatens Order’: The Autofiction of Chris Kraus, Annie Ernaux, and Sophie Calle0
Mathematics of Translation: Encounters with Literature’s Excess Interpretive Potential0
The Objects of Family History: Eliza Bennett's Straw Wedding Bonnet0
The Translation Memoir: An Introduction0
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel , by Claus Elholm Andersen, Albany, SUNY Press, 2023, 243pp., ISBN97814384956680
Enduring Places and Excavating Memories: Biographical Narratives of Delhi in Malvika Singh’s Perpetual City (2013)0
Memoir and Respectable Femininity: Shirani A. Bandaranayake' s Hold Me in Contempt0
Literary Couples and Twentieth-Century Life Writing: Narrative and Intimacy0
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