Life Writing

Leading journal in the field of auto/biography. We publish scholarly articles, critically informed creative personal essays, and book reviews. Tweet us!

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Available Now! Vol. 17, No. 1. (2020)
Special issue on *Career Construction Theory and Life Writing* edited by Hywel Dix
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Dr Claire Hansen introducing the first JCU medical humanities working group “The Heart of the Matter”! The heart such a rich and varied metaphor. Biomedical engineer Dr Michael Stevens speaking today about when hearts stop working properly on their own. #JCUHeart#Heartofthematter

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Now available! Vol. 16, no. 3 of Life @LifeWritingJnl ! Featuring writing on female asexuality, reading in a post #metoo landscape, Italian second wave feminism, and processing trauma in memoir! #autobiography #lifewriting https://t.co/Q6JQtfjwsS

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The IABA World cfp is out! Life-Writing: Imagining the Past, Present and Future; 9–12 June 2020; Turku, Finland https://t.co/tjcTKs4ouE … #iaba2020

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Now Available! Life Writing, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2019) “Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections” Edited by Sandra Mayer & Julia Novak
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Animating Interior Worlds: a special issue of Life Writing! Call for proposals, abstracts due 28 February 2019. See CFP for how to submit! Contact Nicole Matthews @DrNDMatthews with enquiries. Good luck! 😊 #cfp #academiclyf #lifewriting

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Hind, Emily. “Contemplation as Resistance to Ageism, and its Historical Context: Mexican Writers Carmen Boullosa, Guadalupe Nettel, and María Rivera.” Out now in vol. 16, no. 1 of #LifeWriting journal, all about women and ageing! 👊 https://t.co/xmCqdQ79Ht

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"Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives" by Margaret O'Neill and @MichaelaFrueh72. Out now in Life Writing! https://t.co/OhVIFoytgi

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Check out the new issue of Life Writing, which is all about Women and Ageing! Edited by Margaret O'Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh! https://t.co/YmbjEv1RJ5

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Rasmussen reads several auto/biographical texts about Fawcett and traces how youthfulness, "once a source of [Fawcett's] power, deeply complicates her ageing process, particularly when she sets about to create an illness narrative..."
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From the latest issue of #LifeWriting! Lucinda Rasmussen's examines Farrah Fawcett's "girlish persona": Fawcett's image of perpetual youthfulness "bolsters the heteropatriarchy while undermining feminist work being done to counter gender inequality."
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Life Writing highlighted by The Times Literary Supplement as one of 3 leading journals in the study of #autobiography! Along with our friends @autobiostudies and Biography (of course!). Over the moon! https://t.co/eOASq8mXOX #lifenarrative

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Kurt Borg: "Rather than a matter with which we must try to make do, in this same vulnerability, in its recognition and apprehension, lies an ethical potential:‘perhaps, an ethics based on our shared, invariable, and partial blindness about ourselves’(Butler 2005,40– 41)." (452)

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Kurt Borg: ..."This vulnerability [of relationality] troubles self-narration and exposes its limits, since it counters the idea of an autonomous subject who has full knowledge of oneself, and who can authoritatively construct a narrative about oneself." (450)

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Kurt Borg: "Butler’s account of subjectivity emphasises the ways in which one’s life is necessarily implicated in the lives of others. This entanglement is not always within one’s choosing, and marks the subject as vulnerable." (450)

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Kurt Borg: "The survivor’s ability to narrate in words the traumatic episode, and to more or less integrate the episode within a life story, is seen as a sign of agency whereby the survivor can exercise some form of control and mastery over the traumatic episode." (449)

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Kurt Borg: "arrative coherence is considered as paramount within mental health discourses, seen as empowering traumatised individuals by giving them more control over their own lives." (447-8)

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Check out this great article by Kurt Borg in the current issue of Life Writing! Borg uses Judith Butler to critique the hegemony of the coherent self as it appears in life writing about trauma, arguing instead for a more relational view of the self: https://t.co/L3a0ziL4GY

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Olga Michael's essay "Reading Phoebe Gloeckner's *A Child's Life and Other Stories* at the Time of #MeToo" is one you won't want to miss! Available now at https://t.co/3kNxiIhRQs #lifewriting #feminist #onlineactivism #graphicnarrative #graphicmemoir

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From our pals over at a/b Studies journal! This looks super interesting... #lifewriting #iaba

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Narrative Personae and Visual Signs: Reading Leonard's Intimate Photo Memoir by Maria Tamboukou. "The artist is instead configured as a narrative persona." https://t.co/yFIIHX9zJc #autobiography #photography #PhotoMemoir #autobiostudies