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Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

Am ricanas Autocracy and Autobiographical Innovation Book PDF

Author : Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000029413

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Overwriting the Dictator is literary study of life writing and dictatorship in Americas. Its focus is women who have attempted to rewrite, or overwrite, discourses of womanhood and nationalism in the dictatorships of their nations of origin. The project covers five 20th century autocratic governments: the totalitarianism of Rafael Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic, the dynasty of the Somoza family in Nicaragua, the charismatic, yet polemical impact of Juan and Eva Perón on the proletariat of Argentina, the controversial rule of Fidel Castro following Cuba’s 1959 revolution, and Augusto Pinochet’s coup d'état that transformed Chile into a police state. Each chapter traces emerging patterns of experimentation with autobiographical form and determines how specific autocratic methods of control suppress certain methods of self-representation and enable others. The book foregrounds ways in which women’s self-representation produces a counter-narrative that critiques and undermines dictatorial power with the depiction of women as self-aware, resisting subjects engaged in repositioning their gendered narratives of national identity.

Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

Author : Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000029512

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Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Pdf

Overwriting the Dictator is literary study of life writing and dictatorship in Americas. Its focus is women who have attempted to rewrite, or overwrite, discourses of womanhood and nationalism in the dictatorships of their nations of origin. The project covers five 20th century autocratic governments: the totalitarianism of Rafael Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic, the dynasty of the Somoza family in Nicaragua, the charismatic, yet polemical impact of Juan and Eva Perón on the proletariat of Argentina, the controversial rule of Fidel Castro following Cuba’s 1959 revolution, and Augusto Pinochet’s coup d'état that transformed Chile into a police state. Each chapter traces emerging patterns of experimentation with autobiographical form and determines how specific autocratic methods of control suppress certain methods of self-representation and enable others. The book foregrounds ways in which women’s self-representation produces a counter-narrative that critiques and undermines dictatorial power with the depiction of women as self-aware, resisting subjects engaged in repositioning their gendered narratives of national identity.

Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives

Monica Latham

Author : Monica Latham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000388473

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This book explores Virginia Woolf’s afterlives in contemporary biographical novels and drama. It offers an extensive analysis of a wide array of literary productions in which Virginia Woolf appears as a fictional character or a dramatis persona. It examines how Woolf’s physical and psychological features, as well as the values she stood for, are magnified, reinforced or distorted to serve the authors’ specific agendas. Beyond general theoretical issues about this flourishing genre, this study raises specific questions about the literary and cultural relevance of Woolf’s fictional representations. These contemporary narratives inform us about Woolf’s iconicity, but they also mirror our current literary, cultural and political concerns. Based on a close examination of twenty-five works published between 1972 and 2019, the book surveys various portraits of Woolf as a feminist, pacifist, troubled genius, gifted innovative writer, treacherous, competitive sister and tragic, suicidal character, or, on the contrary, as a caricatural comic spirit, inspirational figure and perspicacious amateur sleuth. By resurrecting Virginia Woolf in contemporary biofiction, whether to enhance or debunk stereotypes about the historical figure, the authors studied here contribute to her continuous reinvention. Their diverse fictional portraits constitute a way to reinforce Woolf’s literary status, re-evaluate her work, rejuvenate critical interpretations and augment her cultural capital in the twenty-first century

Teaching Life Writing

Orly Lael Netzer,Amanda Spallacci

Author : Orly Lael Netzer,Amanda Spallacci
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781040088029

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Teaching Life Writing by Orly Lael Netzer,Amanda Spallacci Pdf

Teaching Life Writing: Theory, Methodology, and Practice combines research in life writing and pedagogy to examine the role of life stories in diverse learning contexts, disciplines, and global settings. While life stories are increasingly integrated into curricula, their incorporation raises the risk of reducing them to mere historical evidence. Recognizing the importance of teaching life stories in a manner that goes beyond a surface understanding, life-writing scholars have been consistently exploring innovative pedagogical practices to engage with these stories in ways that encourage dynamic and nuanced conversations about identity, agency, authenticity, memory, and truth, as well as the potential of these narratives to instigate social change. This book assembles contributions from a diverse group of international educators, weaving together life writing research, critical reflection, and concrete pedagogical strategies. The chapters are organized around three overarching conversations: the materials, practices, and mediations involved in teaching life writing within the context of contemporary social change. The unique perspectives presented in this collection provide educators with valuable insights into effectively incorporating life stories into their teaching practices. Featuring works by over a dozen educators, the volume interlaces life writing research, critical reflection, and tangible pedagogical practices. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Trans Narratives

Ana Horvat,Orly Lael Netzer,Sarah McRae,Julie Rak

Author : Ana Horvat,Orly Lael Netzer,Sarah McRae,Julie Rak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000455007

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Trans Narratives by Ana Horvat,Orly Lael Netzer,Sarah McRae,Julie Rak Pdf

Recently, "trans" has taken on a number of important theoretical and critical meanings inside and outside the academy. As a prefix, "trans" can attach itself to other words to express or describe movement and change, as it does in the terms "transnational" or "transmedia." Trans is also an adjective when it is part of a word that signifies an identity or expression. Trans has worked as an adjective to destabilize established ideas about gender as it makes new senses of what gender can mean for trans people. Much of the study of life writing is about the study of identity and the possibilities for lives that stories of identity make possible. In that spirit, Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational represents an opportunity for critical work about life writing by trans people to be featured, as it seeks to interrogate the idea of trans in multiple registers, bringing a prefix to the center of the current field of life-writing studies. It aims to understand through life writing and its theory what trans means when we talk about identities and bodies, and to understand better what the critical terms transmedia and transnational can mean for the field of life writing. The Chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

The Work of Life Writing

G. Thomas Couser

Author : G. Thomas Couser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000367379

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The Work of Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser Pdf

Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability often seek to depathologize the conditions that they recount. Memoirs of parents by their children extend or alter relations forged initially face to face in the home. At a time when memoir and other forms of life writing are being produced and consumed in unprecedented numbers, this book reminds readers that memoir is not mainly a "literary" genre or mere entertainment. Similarly, letters are not merely epiphenomena of our "real lives." Correspondence does not just serve to communicate; it enacts and sustains human relationships. Memoir matters, and there’s life in letters. All life writing arises of our daily lives and has distinctive impacts on them and the culture in which we live.

Speculative Biography

Donna Lee Brien,Kiera Lindsey

Author : Donna Lee Brien,Kiera Lindsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000454734

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Speculative Biography by Donna Lee Brien,Kiera Lindsey Pdf

While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This edited collection brings together a group of international biographers to discuss how, and why, each uses speculation in their work; whether this is to conceptualise a project in its early stages, work with scanty or deliberately deceptive sources, or address issues associated with shy or stubborn subjects. After defining the role of speculation in biography, the volume offers a series of work-in-progress case studies that discuss the challenges biographers encounter and address in their work. In addition to defining the ‘speculative spectrum’ within the biographical endeavour, the collection offers a lexicon of new terms to describe different types of biographical speculation, and more deeply engage with the dynamic interplay between research, subjectivity and that which Natalie Zemon Davis dubbed ‘informed imagination’. By mapping the field of speculative biography, the collection demonstrates that speculation is not only innate to biographical practice but also key to rendering the complex mystery of biographical subjects, be they human, animal or even metaphysical.

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

Author : Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781003808671

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Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Pdf

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their early-career, mid-career, and late-career experiences with the documents that shape their professional lives as women: the institutional auto/biography of employment letters, curriculum vitae, tenure portfolios, promotion applications, publication and conference bios, academic website profiles, and other self-authored narratives required by institutions to compete for opportunities and resources. The essays explore the privacy laws, peer review, disciplinary standards, digital media, and other standardizing tools, practices and policies that impact women’s self-construction at pivotal junctures at which they promote themselves in the spaces of academic careers.

Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging

Nicole Stamant

Author : Nicole Stamant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000594577

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Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging by Nicole Stamant Pdf

Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans’ experiences in their autobiographies. Exploring writers from James McBride and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip to Barack Obama, Toi Dericotte, Natasha Trethway, Rebecca Walker, and Emily Raboteau, this volume explores the ways in which these memoirists refute terms regarding race and simple understandings of belonging, using their contested embodied positions as sites for narration, quest, and protest. Organized chronologically, this volume will provide readers insight into memoirs from Jim Crow America to the Civil Rights period and finally those considering the post-soul (and post-Loving v. Virginia) generation. Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging interrogates these difficult spaces surrounding identity construction, encouraging new conversations surrounding visibility of mixed-race individuals and experiences for future generations. Through archives and personal testimony, this book provides a model for interweaving theoretical and personal accounts of color in American culture to encourage discussions that transgress disciplinary boundaries in the today’s dialogue.

Engaging Donna Haraway

Cynthia Huff,Margaretta Jolly

Author : Cynthia Huff,Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000637816

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Engaging Donna Haraway by Cynthia Huff,Margaretta Jolly Pdf

Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal studies, ecocriticism, digital media, and life narrative. The book shows how Haraway’s decades-long career as a major theoretical voice and provocateur of thinking about new and complex connections across technology, species, and disciplines has generated bold experiments in writing from the perspective and senses of non-human species, in photographic self-portraiture of bodily life, in animating the lives of scientists, in radical genealogy, in playful teaching methods and much more. Focusing on the ways in which Haraway’s oeuvre have affected and will continue to challenge life narrative theory and practice, the chapters in this book present cross-disciplinary perspectives which are both personal and critical. As scholars, students and activists inspired by Haraway’s work, these essays together ask all of us to think about where we place ourselves in an age of environmental crisis and how to live in a ‘natureculture web’ which is as fragile as it is beautiful. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume I

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

Author : Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 103275432X

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Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume I by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Pdf

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe. Volume I examines forms of autoethnography as a decolonizing and dehegemonizing practice in the allegedly post-racial, post-colonial, and post-(hetero)sexist twenty-first century.

Women Activating Agency in Academia

Alison L. Black,Susanne Garvis

Author : Alison L. Black,Susanne Garvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351376471

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Women Activating Agency in Academia by Alison L. Black,Susanne Garvis Pdf

Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency. It provides readers with the opportunity to connect with the strategies women are using to navigate academe and the core values, linked to trust, relationship, wellbeing and ethics of care, they live by. The collection offers the stories of women academics from around the globe and across disciplines and showcases their efforts to meaningfully listen and converse in order to resist self-audit and diminished identities. Reflections come from a range of responsive, personal and aesthetic techniques, including writing groups, guided autobiography, auto-ethnography, collective activism and slow scholarship. Chapters engage with themes and ideas such as agency, neoliberalism, ontological security, androcentricity, identity and collegial support, which manifest in unique ways for female academics. The focus in this volume is what really matters to women in the academy, as they share their efforts to ‘be’ themselves in their work, to ‘care for themselves and others’ and to ‘count what isn’t counted’. It aims to prove how collaborative storytelling and discussion can empower female academics to preserve and achieve these ambitions.

Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge

Sonja Boon,Lesley Butler,Daze Jefferies

Author : Sonja Boon,Lesley Butler,Daze Jefferies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319908298

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Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge by Sonja Boon,Lesley Butler,Daze Jefferies Pdf

This book takes an intimate, collaborative, interdisciplinary autoethnographic approach that both emphasizes the authors’ entangled relationships with the more-than-human, and understands the land and sea-scapes of Newfoundland as integral to their thinking, theorizing, and writing. The authors draw on feminist, trans, queer, critical race, Indigenous, decolonial, and posthuman theories in order to examine the relationships between origins, memories, place, identities, bodies, pasts, and futures. The chapters address a range of concerns, among them love, memory, weather, bodies, vulnerability, fog, myth, ice, desire, hauntings, and home. Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies, cultural geography, folklore, and anthropology, as well as those working in autoethnography, life writing, and island studies.

Lived Experiences of Women in Academia

Alison L. Black,Susanne Garvis

Author : Alison L. Black,Susanne Garvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351376501

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Lived Experiences of Women in Academia by Alison L. Black,Susanne Garvis Pdf

Lived Experiences of Women in Academia shares meaningful stories of women working in the academy, from numerous disciplines, backgrounds and countries, to unveil the complex and distinct dimensionalities they experience in their life and work. Chapters are written using a range of responsive, personal and aesthetic techniques, including metaphor, manifesto and memoir, with reflections inspired by textiles, online blogs and forums, theatre, creative writing, fiction and popular culture. They engage with themes and ideas including gender roles, family-making, work-life balance, motherhood, institutional violence and harassment and the self and identity, revealing how these uniquely manifest for women in academia. This collection takes account of the experiences of female academics from previous decades and the experiences of those to come, as well as those outside the academic system entirely. Lived Experiences of Women in Academia aims to liberate thinking around the life of a female academic through collaborative storytelling and discussion, to encourage new conversations and connections between women in academia across the globe

Witnessing Girlhood

Leigh Gilmore,Elizabeth Marshall

Author : Leigh Gilmore,Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823285501

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Witnessing Girlhood by Leigh Gilmore,Elizabeth Marshall Pdf

When more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, youth, and race. In Witnessing Girlhood, Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall argue that they also joined a long tradition of autobiographical writing led by women of color in which adults use the figure and narrative of child witness to expose harm and seek justice. Witnessing Girlhood charts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response. Drawing on a deep and diverse archive of self-representational forms—slave narratives, testimonio, memoir, comics, and picture books—Gilmore and Marshall attend to how authors return to a narrative of traumatized and silenced girlhood and the figure of the child witness in order to offer public testimony. Emerging within these accounts are key scenes and figures that link a range of texts and forms from the mid–nineteenth century to the contemporary period. Gilmore and Marshall offer a genealogy of the reverberations across timelines, self-representational acts, and jurisdictions of the child witness in life writing. Reconstructing these historical and theoretical trajectories restores an intersectional testimonial history of writing by women of color about sexual and racist violence to the center of life writing and, in so doing, furthers our capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness.

Américanas Autocracy And Autobiographical Innovation

Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Pdf

Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Pdf

Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives by Monica Latham Pdf

Teaching Life Writing by Orly Lael Netzer,Amanda Spallacci Pdf

Trans Narratives by Ana Horvat,Orly Lael Netzer,Sarah McRae,Julie Rak Pdf

The Work of Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser Pdf

Speculative Biography by Donna Lee Brien,Kiera Lindsey Pdf

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Pdf

Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging by Nicole Stamant Pdf

Engaging Donna Haraway by Cynthia Huff,Margaretta Jolly Pdf

Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume I by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Pdf

Women Activating Agency in Academia by Alison L. Black,Susanne Garvis Pdf

Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge by Sonja Boon,Lesley Butler,Daze Jefferies Pdf

Lived Experiences of Women in Academia by Alison L. Black,Susanne Garvis Pdf

Witnessing Girlhood by Leigh Gilmore,Elizabeth Marshall Pdf

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