Suchergebnisse

What is radicalization? : from the civil society to the enemy within -- Using auto/biographical methodologies to analyze radicalization -- 'There are so many roots' : sex, sexuality, gender and the body in political prisoner radicalization narratives -- 'I felt myself turning cold like the bottle of Coke' : children, childhood and 'the child' in political prisoner life writing -- Is radicalization a family affair? : a tale of two families

Girls in crisis: feminist resistance in life writing by women of color -- Gender pessimism and survivorstorytelling in the memoir boom: Girl, interrupted, Autobiography of a face, and Nanette -- Visualizing sexual violence and feminist child witness: A child's life and other stories and Becoming unbecoming -- Teaching dissent through picture books:girlhood activism and graphic life writing for the child -- Epilogue: twenty-first-century formations: child witness, trans life writing, and futurity.

"Free and easy as ones discourse"?: genre and self-expression in the poems and letters of early modern Englishwomen / Helen Wilcox -- Domestic papers: manuscript culture and early modern women's life writing / Margaret Ezell -- "Many hands hands": writing the self in early modern women's recipe books / Catherine Field -- Serial identity: history, gender, and form in the diary writing of Lady Anne Clifford / Megan Matchinske -- merging the secular and the spiritual in Lady Anne Halkett's memoirs / Mary Ellen Lamb -- prefacing texts, authorizing authors, and constructing selves: the preface as autobiographical space / Julie A. Eckerle -- Structures of piety in Elizabeth Richardson's Legacie / Michelle M. Dowd -- Intersubjectivity, intertextuality, and form in the self-writings of Margaret Cavendish / Elspeth Graham -- Margaret Cavendish's domestic experiment / Lara Dodds -- "That All the World May Know ": women's "defense-narratives" and the early novel / Josephine Donovan

"Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a selection of autobiographies in contemporary historical context - including the coalescing of the first modern armies, which were partially populated by forced recruits and the urban poor - Faith S. Harden explains how soldiers adapted the concept of honour and contributed to the burgeoning autobiographical form. Harden argues that Spanish military life writing took two broad forms: the first as a petition, wherein the soldier's service was presented as a debt of honour, and second, as a series of misadventures, staging honour as a spectacle that captivated an audience. Honour was inevitably gendered and performative, and as such, it functioned as one of the overarching metrics of value that early modern men and women applied to themselves and others. In charting how non-elite subjects rendered their lives legitimate through autobiography, Arms and Letters contributes both to a critical genealogy of honour and to the history of life writing."--