Life Writing, Volume 21, Issue 2 (2024)

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Conference Report

Report
Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference
Kate Douglas, Kylie Cardell, Marina Deller, Emma Maguire & Shannon Sandford
Pages: 179-195
Published online: 28 Jan 2024
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Essays

Essay
Couples: A Collective Life
Joe Moran
Pages: 199-213
Published online: 03 Sep 2023
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‘To You, Who May Find Yourself in This Story’: What a Baker’s Memoir Taught an Emerging Education Scholar
Amber Moore
Pages: 215-221
Published online: 04 Jan 2023
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I Want to Become: My (Own) Reference List
Dave Yan
Pages: 223-229
Published online: 16 May 2023
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Articles

Article
Reflecting on Memory, Imagination and Place: Reading Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City Through a Cognitive Literary Lens
Merril Howie
Pages: 233-254
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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Fantasy and Dissimulation in the Memoirs of Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926)
Rachel Mairs
Pages: 255-276
Published online: 04 Jul 2023
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Intercultural Mediation in the Translation of the Self in Travel Writing: A Case Study of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper
Pan Xie & Xiaoxiao Xin
Pages: 277-293
Published online: 25 Jun 2023
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Ludwig Wittgenstein and Georg Henrik von Wright: An Unexpected Friendship
Päivi Kaipainen
Pages: 295-313
Published online: 21 Jun 2023
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Individualism, Collectivism, and Identity Politics in Palestinian Life Writing
Eman Alasah
Pages: 315-332
Published online: 07 Jun 2023
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‘A Stranger in the City’: Selfhood, Community and Modes of (Un)belonging in Muhammad Iqbal’s Self-Portraitures
Saliha Shah
Pages: 333-348
Published online: 12 May 2023
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No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’: The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing
Karolína Zlámalová
Pages: 349-367
Published online: 12 May 2023
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Memoir and Respectable Femininity: Shirani A. Bandaranayake's Hold Me in Contempt
Kanchanakesi Warnapala
Pages: 369-380
Published online: 19 Apr 2023
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Crossing the Bamboo Curtain: Occidentalism and the English Language in Cultural Revolution Memoirs
Mai Wang
Pages: 381-400
Published online: 14 Apr 2023
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Survivor Memory and Rape Memoir: Chanel Miller’s Know My Name
Marta Fernández-Morales
Pages: 401-418
Published online: 05 Apr 2023
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Reviews

Book Review
As Told by Herself: Women’s Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969
by Lorna Martens, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2022, 306 pp., ISBN: 978-0-29933-9-104
Valerie Sanders
Pages: 421-424
Published online: 19 Feb 2023
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Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography
by Paul John Eakin, foreword by Craig Howes, New York and London: Routledge, 2020, Pp. xxi + 151, (paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-51577-5
Jeremy D. Popkin
Pages: 425-427
Published online: 27 Jan 2023
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How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying
by Leslie Swartz, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2021, 222 pp., ISBN: 9781776146949
Joan C. Tronto
Pages: 429-432
Published online: 04 Jan 2023
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Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused
by Anita Wohlmann, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 216 pp., ISBN 978 1 3995 0088 3
Richard Freadman
Pages: 433-436
Published online: 18 May 2023
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Correction

Correction
Correction
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Published online: 11 Jul 2023
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