a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2019)

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Autobiography and|as Narcissism? Psychoanalysis and Self-Reflexive Life-Writing in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love and Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?
Anne Rüggemeier & Maren Scheurer
Pages: 167-195
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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“This Has Been a Painful Story to Tell”: Excavating Stories of Motherhood, Alcohol Abuse, and Writing in Two North American Memoirs: Lit by Mary Karr and Drunk Mom by Jowita Bydlowska
Dagmara Drewniak
Pages: 197-210
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Shifting Positions: Amputation, Prosthesis, and the Embodied Memory of Algeria
Amy L. Hubbell
Pages: 211-230
Published online: 15 Apr 2019
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Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan’s Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood
Yomna Saber
Pages: 231-255
Published online: 15 Apr 2019
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Writing Beyond the Personal: History, Memoir, and Fiction in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace
Yu Min Claire Chen
Pages: 257-270
Published online: 17 Apr 2019
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“I Know Who I Am and What I Represent”: Asserting Indigenous Labrador Identity
Vicki S. Hallett
Pages: 271-301
Published online: 29 Mar 2019
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Forum: Concealing and Revealing - Life Writing at the Edges

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Concealing and Revealing: Life Writing at the Edges
Laura J. Beard & Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Pages: 303-306
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Concealing and Revealing in Life Narratives by Undocumented Authors
Ina Batzke
Pages: 306-316
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Nurturing Life Writing in Egypt after the Arab Spring: Fiction as “Survival Mechanism”
Alison Gibbons
Pages: 316-324
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Autobiographical Unveiling in the Dramatic Performances of Childhood: A Conversation with Erika Santos
Erika Pereira Santos, Laura Beard & Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Pages: 324-329
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Lists in Life Writing: The List as a Means to Visualize the Trace of the Absent
Anne Rüggemeier
Pages: 330-342
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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XI IABA Brazil 2018
Alfred Hornung
Pages: 342-344
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Conference Review
Nancy Pedri
Pages: 344-345
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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How Would You Teach It?

Learning to Scribble with Benjamin Franklin
Mark Canada
Pages: 347-356
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Rev. of Strangers at Home: Place, Belonging, and Australian Life Writing JACK BOWERS Cambria Press, 2016 273 pp., AUS$109.99 (Clothback), ISBN 978-1604979343
Pages: 357-360
Published online: 04 Apr 2019
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Rev. of The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making It Real
Pages: 360-364
Published online: 24 Apr 2019
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Rev. of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
Pages: 364-368
Published online: 17 Apr 2019
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Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
Pages: 369-373
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Correction
Correction
Page: I
Published online: 03 Jul 2019
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Correction
Correction
Page: II
Published online: 03 Jul 2019
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