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Stories of Change/Stories for Change: IABAA Conference, 2021

Essay Cluster: Stories of Change/Stories for Change: IABAA Conference, 2021 by Laura Beard and Eva C. KarpinskiEditorial

Editorial
“Stories of Change, Stories for Change: IABAA 2021” Special Cluster Introduction
Sergio Da Silva Barcellos
Pages: 1-8
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Essay Cluster: Stories of Change/Stories for Change: IABAA Conference, 2021 by Laura Beard and Eva C. KarpinskiEssays

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Mask Aesthetics: Prophylaxis, Post -Digital Arts, and Reimagining Vulnerable Selves
Sarah Brophy
Pages: 9-36
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Torrente Patriographies
Sandra Pinasco
Pages: 37-53
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Eliciting Narratives of Disorientation: A Methodological Exploration
Kate Manlik & Nicole Matthews
Pages: 55-72
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Outside the Box: Reading Material Grief Memoir as Grief Archive
Marina Deller
Pages: 73-91
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Essay Cluster: Stories of Change/Stories for Change: IABAA Conference, 2021 by Laura Beard and Eva C. KarpinskiInterview

Interview
Gathering Stories for Community Action
Laura J. Beard, Ricia Anne Chansky, Amy Kaler & Marcy Schwartz
Pages: 93-101
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Injury Epistemology: Notes on a Silencing and Narrative Accompaniment
Theresa A. Kulbaga & Leland G. Spencer
Pages: 103-129
Published online: 10 Jan 2024
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Speaking into the Silence: Lesbian Intimate Partner Violence in Carmen Maria Machado’s in the Dream House and a Queer Women’s Archive
Isobel Lavers
Pages: 131-154
Published online: 04 Jan 2024
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Time and Memory in the Twilight Zone: Cognitive Literary Perspectives on Joan Didion’s Blue Nights
Merril Howie
Pages: 155-184
Published online: 16 Oct 2023
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The Question Is When: Fear, Time, and Risk Management in Amy Boesky’s BRCA Memoir
Marta Fernández-Morales
Pages: 185-210
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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“My mother must have been other than woman”1: Matrophobia in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Yomna Saber
Pages: 211-233
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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White Guilt: Antjie Krog’s Begging to Be Black and the Confessional Uncanny
Esther Pujolràs-Noguer
Pages: 235-262
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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Postmemory and Hybridity in Ariel Sabar’s My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Father’s Past
Zhila Gholami
Pages: 263-285
Published online: 04 Jan 2024
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Vietnamese Transgender Persons in Autobiography: An Analysis and Notes on a Transgender Woman’s Discourse and Politics
Anh Nguyen Hoang, Xuan Hien Nguyen & Hoa Bui
Pages: 287-310
Published online: 09 Jan 2024
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From Shoutin’ to Social Mobility: Negotiating the Southern Self and Social Identity in Rick Bragg’s Memoirs
Jeffrey C. Neely
Pages: 311-325
Published online: 04 Jan 2024
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Noncommunicable Melancholia in Peter Handke’s A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Saeedeh Esmailzadeh
Pages: 327-345
Published online: 23 Nov 2023
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Familiar Stranger: Double Self-Portraiture in the Art of Howard Finster
James H. Watkins
Pages: 347-373
Published online: 08 Feb 2024
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Burgess Reading Joyce: Autobiography and Influence
Elliott Mills
Pages: 375-405
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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Biofiction and Fictional Metabiography in Richard Beard’s Lazarus is Dead
Stephanie Russo
Pages: 407-424
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Dreaming Edifices: Interactive Auto/Biography and New Narrative Architectures in Helena Solberg’s Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business
Emily Travis
Pages: 425-446
Published online: 15 Jan 2024
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Narrating the Self: 200 Years of Autobiographical Texts
Whitney Arnold, Benjamin Niedzielski & Nick Schwieterman
Pages: 447-475
Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Rev. of Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives
Edited by MARLEEN RENSEN AND CHRISTOPHER WILEY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 278 pp., $ 64.99 (eBook), ISBN 978-3-030-45199-8
Beth Kearney
Pages: 477-481
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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Rev. of The Second Karmapa Karma Pakshi: Tibetan Mahāsiddha
CHARLES MANSON. Shambala: Boulder, CO. 2022. 288 pp. $27.95 (USD). ISBN: 978-1-5593-9467-3
David Hammerbeck
Pages: 481-485
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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Rev. of Image of a Man
A. BELSEY, Liverpool University Press, 2020, 262 pp., £90.00, (Hardback), ISBN 9781789620290
Suzanne Joinson
Pages: 486-489
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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