Life Writing, Volume 20, Issue 2 (2023)

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Life Writing, Volume 20, Issue 2 (2023)

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Articles

Article
American ‘Goddess of Mercy’ in the Nanjing Massacre: Minnie Vautrin and the Afterlife of Her Wartime Diary
Pingfan Zhang
Pages: 239-255
Published online: 13 Oct 2022
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Life Writing as Micropolitics: Prussian CVs at the Dawn of Bureaucratic Meritocracy
Stephan Strunz
Pages: 257-272
Published online: 16 Jun 2022
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Dialogic Reading Spaces in Autofiction: Rachel Cusk’s Kudos
Tijana Przulj
Pages: 273-285
Published online: 07 Jun 2022
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‘Who does he think he is: Jesus?’ J. M. Coetzee's Last Confession in Summertime
Sherif H. Ismail
Pages: 287-309
Published online: 21 Nov 2021
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Katherine May’s Wintering and the Care of the Self
Stella Bolaki
Pages: 311-328
Published online: 19 Apr 2022
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Reading and Seeing Women’s Life Writing Through Adrienne Rich in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?
Janine Utell
Pages: 329-350
Published online: 22 Jul 2022
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Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis
Kerrie M. Davies
Pages: 351-365
Published online: 09 Aug 2022
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Reading Objects, Watching YouTube, Writing Biography, and Teaching Life Writing: Student Engagement When Learning Online During Covid-19
Kate Douglas, Kylie Cardell, Marina Deller & Edith Hill
Pages: 367-382
Published online: 02 Mar 2022
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Essays

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Reading, Race, and Remembering Childhood Abuse—Returning to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Shelley Trower
Pages: 385-392
Published online: 27 Dec 2021
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Historical Fiction and the Breton Landscape: Writing the Life of Jeanne de Belleville
Ellen O’Brien
Pages: 393-407
Published online: 03 Mar 2022
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Emptying the Attic: The Family Archive in Transition
Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir
Pages: 409-420
Published online: 16 Mar 2022
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The Tiger Skin on the Bannister (and Other Stories): Internal Dialogues and Parallel Autobiographical Process in a Reading of Wilfred Bion’s The Long Weekend, 1897–1919: Part of a Life
Tim Smith
Pages: 421-434
Published online: 07 Mar 2022
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Review

Book Review
Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland
by Elizabeth Grubgeld, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Mamillan, 2020, 182 pp. ISBN 9783030372453
Jeremy Colangelo
Pages: 437-440
Published online: 09 Dec 2021
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Correction
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Published online: 07 Sep 2022
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