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Focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. This title examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative

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

This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public perception and ideology; identifying important political successes and policy initiatives; grappling with issues like corruption and age-old political science questions about leadership and 'dirty hands'. These are general themes but they take on a particular significance in the Pacific context and so the contributions explore these themes in relation to patterns of colonisation and the memory of independence; issues elliptically captured by terms like 'culture' and 'tradition'; the nature of 'self' presented in Pacific life writing; and the tendency for many of these texts to be written by 'outsiders', or at least the increasingly contested nature of what that term means.

Life-writing is a vital part of the history of archaeology, and a growing field of scholarship within the discipline. Travels and adventures of the 'great archaeologists' have generated centuries-worth of bestselling books that, in turn, shaped the public perception of archaeology. The lives of archaeologists are entangled with histories of museums and collections, developments in science and scholarship, and narratives of nationalism and colonialism into the present. In recent years life-writing has played an important role in the surge of new research in the history of archaeology, including ground-breaking studies of discipline formation, institutionalisation and social and intellectual networks. Sources such as diaries, wills, film and the growing body of digital records are powerful tools for highlighting the contributions of hitherto marginalised archaeological lives including many pioneering women, hired labourers and other 'hidden hands'.

This book brings together critical perspectives on life-writing in the history of archaeology from leading figures in the field. These include studies of archive formation and use, the concept of 'dig-writing' as a distinctive genre of archaeological creativity and reviews of new sources for already well-known lives. Several chapters reflect on the experience of life-writing, review the historiography of the field and assess the intellectual value and significance of life-writing as a genre. Together, they work to problematise underlying assumptions about this genre, foregrounding methodology, social theory, ethics and other practice-focused frameworks in conscious tension with previous practices.

This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. A new language to express possibilities of gender and sexuality emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, from Sigmund Freud's theories of homosexuality in Vienna to Magnus Hirschfeld's "third sex" in Berlin. Together, they provided a language of sex and sexuality that is still recognizable today. Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality during this time and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership. It shows the remarkable power of queer life writing in imagining and creating the possibilities of a livable life in the face of restrictive legal, medical, and social frameworks.

Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about LGBTQ+ history and literature. It also provides a fascinating insight into the historical roots for our thinking about gender and sexuality today. The book will be of relevance to an academic readership of students and faculty in German studies, literary studies, European history, and the interdisciplinary fields of gender and sexuality studies, medical humanities, and the history of sexuality.

The diversity of gay men's life writing since the Stonewall Inn riots is not limited to the coming-out story. Memoirs, personal essays, fictionalized autobiographies, and other forms of life writing witnessing to gay experience adopt many narrative paradigms and are profoundly self-reflexive about how they construct gay male identity. Exposures emphasizes both this critical perspective and the risk-taking, personal as much as artistic, assumed by gay male autobiographers. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writings on shame, inspired by Silvan Tomkins's affect theory, are an important point of reference

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood -- 1. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color -- 2. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom: Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette -- 3. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness: A Child's Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming -- 4. 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

1. Introduction - James Farr and Guido Ruggiero -- 2. The Elusive Self: An Essay - John Jeffries Martin -- 3. The Life Enhancing Value of Life-Writing: On the Uses and Disadvantages of History in Vasari's Lives of Artists - Douglas Biow -- 4. Benvenuto Cellini Magnanimously Corrects the Irritating Ignorance of Life Writers in General and in Regard to My Vita - Guido Ruggiero -- 5. Conversions and Crossing Frontiers: The Lives of Two Spanish Monks - James Ameland -- 6. Everard Nithard's Memoria: The Jesuit Confessor's Quest for Re-fashioning the Self, People and Events - Silvia Z. Mitchell - 7. Egodocument History and the Diary of Constantijn Huygens, Jr. - Rudolf Dekker -- 8. Dimensions of the Self in Autobiographical Life-Writing: James Boswell's Journals and William Hickey's Memoirs - James R. Farr -- 9. Our Letters, Our Lives: Self-Performance as Life-Writing in Italian Renaissance Correspondence - Deanna Shemek -- 10. Writing About the "Other" in One's Life: Life-Writing and Egodocuments of King Frederick William I of Prussia (1713-40), Frederick II of Prussia, and Wilhelmina of Bayreuth - Benjamin Marschke -- 11. A Dutch Notary and His Clients - Mary Lindemann -- 12. The Genres and Modes of Early Modern Women's Life-Writing: Anne Clifford and Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans - Mihoko Suzuki.

Practising political life writing in the Pacific /Jack Corbett --Political life writing in Papua New Guinea /Jonathan Ritchie --Understanding Solomon /Christopher Chevalier --The 'Pawa Meri' project /Ceridwen Spark --'End of a phase of history' /Brij V. Lal --Random thoughts of an occasional practitioner /Deryck Scarr --Walking the line between Anga Fakatonga and Anga Fakapalangi /Areti Metuamate --Writing influential lives /Nicole Haley --Celebrating my journey /Sethy Regenvanu --Reflections on a remarkable journey /Carol Kidu --Solomon Islands' biography /Clive Moore --Biographies of post-1900 New Zealand prime ministers /Doug Munro.

The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. Writers discussed include Nancy Mairs, Lucy Grealy, Georgina Kleege, Connie Panzarino, Eli Clare, Anne Finger, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and May Sarton

"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