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Them Days magazine is a quarterly publication that has been dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Labrador for the past 42 years. It is created in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, in the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This article outlines a methodology of faithful feminist witnessing that is used to engage the Indigenous and non-Indigenous stories contained in Them Days and the story of Them Days itself. This methodology utilizes decolonizing, postcolonial, and feminist life-writing theories, and is guided by decolonial attitude, which the author argues is demonstrated in the magazine's founding principles and continuing work.

This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer's narrative that centres on dependence and vulnerability, and addresses how they relate to discourses of gender and aging. Linking literary scholarship to the medico-scientific understanding of dementia as a neurodegenerative condition, this book argues that, first, patients' articulations must be made central to dementia discourse; and second, committed alleviation of caregiver burden through social support systems and altered healthcare policies requires significantly altered views about aging, dementia, and Alzheimer's patients

1. Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all -- 2. One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin's "Tiger Bites" -- 3. "their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between": Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese -- 4. Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness -- 5. Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud's Happiness Has a Slippery Tail -- 6. From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein's Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn -- 7. The (M)other's Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women -- 8. Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti -- 9. A Plea for Motherhood: Mothering and Writing in Contemporary Norwegian Literature.

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and bell hooks' Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood share a common concern with emancipation and employ complementary rhetorical strategies. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl presents Harriet Jacobs' journey of personal self-discovery through various relationships with others, and her personal narrative finally serves the larger goal of emancipation for her people. Jacobs' narrative is full of other voices, or personae. Even the narrator, Linda Brent, is pseudonymous, or "other," in this sense. Jacobs invokes these personae in her autobiography; she explores her experiences as a web of relationships. Jacobs shows a collective or communal notion of selfhood, and she uses this notion of selfhood to establish a bond of sisterhood among black women and white. Although slavery officially ended with emancipation, black Americans continue to live its historical legacy. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood is both self-revelation and an attempt to record and refigure a rich Southern black culture. Polyptoton is the governing trope of hooks' narrative. Through it, she invites the reader to enter into her world from various angles. "I" evokes a subjective and an insider's response, whereas the pronoun "she" provokes an objective analysis. The first person plural, "we" serves as an often ironically liminal place between the subjective and a wholly detached, objective perspective. Complementing Jacobs' notion of a collective self, hooks presents the self that is diffracted in Bone Black. She presents a similar, universalizing argument: people, regardless of skin color, need to know the poison and damage of racial discrimination. As a feminist, hooks is also concerned about women's marginalization. She elaborates on her personal experiences as lessons for readers of both gender to be aware of the necessity and progress of women's empowerment. Jacobs' community of personae and hooks' use of polyptoton are complementary strategies. Jacobs' approach grows out of historical, political and legal exigencies. hooks' approach reflects her historical situation as well, with its "partially" emancipated outlook on race and gender. Both writers, however, move--and insist upon the importance of moving--from the singularity of personal experience to the life of the community.

The Insta-girl, a postfeminist, late-capitalist figure characterized by "oversharing" of intimate content, epitomizes the production, circulation, and consumption of a particular type of "girl-hood"...

Preliminary Material -- Selves in Dialogue: An Introduction /Begoña Simal -- Identity Cards: Autobiography and Critical Practice /Jeffrey Gray -- Self and Nation in Franklin's Autobiography and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior /Ana M Manzanas -- Ethnic Authorship and the Autobiographical Act: Zitkala-Ša, Sui Sin Far, and the Crafting of Authorial Identity /Rachel Ihara and Jaime Cleland -- "We, Too, Sing America": The Construction of American Subjectivity in African American Migration and European Immigrant Autobiographies /Brenda R. Smith -- Native Journeys of Self-Figuration: N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands / La Frontera /Anna M. Brígido-Corachán -- Memory in Motion: The "Double Narratives" of Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and Samuel R. Delany's The Motion of Light in Water /José Liste Noya -- Autobiographical Writing on Politics in the Sin State: Latina and Basque American Perspectives /David Río -- Puerto Rican and Dominican Self-Portraits and their Frames: The "Autobiographical" Fiction of Esmeralda Santiago, Junot Díaz, and Julia Álvarez /Aitor Ibarrola-Armendáriz -- Living in the Taste of Things: Food, Self and Family in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Leslie Li's Daughter of Heaven /Paula Torreiro Pazo -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNIST AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, 1944-1956: ADMINISTRATIVE IDENTIFICATION AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY -- Communist autobiographies: Origins -- The Italian way to autobiographical control: Elements of context -- The communist autobiography: Plot and story -- 2 EMINIST SELF-ENUNCIATION: BETWEEN SILENCE AND INFINITE SPEECH -- The paradox of emancipation and its autobiographical strategies -- Paranoia: The infinite discourse -- Schizophrenia and catatonia: Poetry, dreams and discursive hesitations -- 3 THE REMAINS OF TWO TRADITIONS: INSTITUTIONAL MONUMENTS AND IMPOSSIBLE MOURNING -- After the end: The collapse of communism and the self-narrative -- Late feminist autobiographies: The journey towards legitimacy and normality -- Echoes of the origins: The autobiographies of Giorgio Napolitano and Laura Lepetit -- Giorgio Napolitano: The man who made himself an institution -- Laura Lepetit: Feminism as distraction -- CONCLUSIONS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Imprint.

This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century. The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism.The subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences, interactions and interpretations. They trace the building of socio-cultural and professional networks, the casual encounters of everyday life, and the travel, translation, and preserving of life stories in different media. In these multiple ways the book makes a strong case for reclaiming lost personal narratives that have been passed over by more orthodox nation-state focused approaches.These explorations make use of social and historical categories such as class, gender, religion and race in a transnational context, arguing that the transnational characteristics of these categories overflow the nation-state frame. In this way they can be used to 'unhinge' the primarily national context of history-writing.By drawing on personal records and other primary sources, the chapters in this book release many layers of subjectivity otherwise lost, enabling a richer understanding of how individuals move through, interact with and are affected by the major events of their time