a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1 (2022)

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Essays

Article
“A Search for Presence or a Reflection on Absence?”: Aesthetics and Ethics in Kate Grenville’s One Life: My Mother’s Story
Cheryl O’Byrne
Pages: 1-23
Published online: 15 Sep 2021
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Unpacking a Life: Dr Gertrude (Trudy) Spencer
Jennifer Baldwin
Pages: 25-38
Published online: 14 Feb 2022
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Probing Utopian Dreaming in Portuguese American Autobiography
Sílvia A. Oliveira
Pages: 39-58
Published online: 14 Feb 2022
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Figurational Life Writing and Indigenous Lives in the Rain Forests of the Americas
Alfred Hornung
Pages: 59-77
Published online: 07 Jan 2022
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The Forms That Testimony Take

Introduction
Introduction: The Forms That Testimony (Still) Takes
Katrina M. Powell
Pages: 79-88
Published online: 13 Feb 2023
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Domesticating Humanitarianism: Stephanie Land’s Maid, This American Life, and the Imaginative Politics of Need
Rosanne Kennedy
Pages: 89-112
Published online: 13 Feb 2023
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Recursive Witness: Narrative Critique of Testimonial Criticism in Alicia Partnoy’s “Rosa, I Disowned You” and “Disclaimer Intraducible: My Life/Is Based/on a Real Story”
Kimberly Nance
Pages: 113-128
Published online: 13 Feb 2023
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Testimony on the Move: Navigating the Borders of (In)visibility with Migrant -Led Soundwalks
Eleanor Paynter
Pages: 129-152
Published online: 13 Feb 2023
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Embracing Vulnerability in Writing Migrant Lives
Susan Beth Rottmann & Rosemary Sayer
Pages: 153-174
Published online: 13 Feb 2023
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Ethnical Relations in Migrant Worker Poetry as Testimony
Xiaojing Zhou
Pages: 175-198
Published online: 13 Feb 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Rev. of Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits
LEONOR ARFUCH, CHRISTINA M ac SWEENEY (Trans.), Polity, 2020, 180 pp., $22.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-5095-4218-5
Magdalena Maiz-Peña
Pages: 199-202
Published online: 14 Feb 2022
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Americanization of Human Rights. Iranian, African, and Chinese Lives in American Autobiography
SUNCICA KLASS Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018 (Hardcover) ISBN: 978-3-8253-7759-5
Amy Motlagh
Pages: 202-205
Published online: 03 Aug 2021
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Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism
Rev. of SUZANNE BOST, University of Illinois Press, 2019, 204 pp., $25 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-2520-8462-1
Ina Batzke
Pages: 205-209
Published online: 07 Jul 2021
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Rev. of Changed Forever: American Indian Boarding-School Literature , Vol. 2
ARNOLD KRUPAT. State University of New York Press, 2020. 406 pp., $95.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-4384-8007-7
Rossitza Ivanova
Pages: 209-213
Published online: 16 Aug 2022
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Rev. of The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s): Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing,
Jens Temmen, Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2020, 259 pp., €44 (Hardback), ISBN 978-3-8253-4713-0
Lynn Domina
Pages: 214-220
Published online: 25 Aug 2022
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Obituary
Notes on Contributors
Pages: 221-224
Published online: 13 Feb 2023
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Statement of Removal
Page: i
Published online: 29 Sep 2020
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