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Issue Details:
First known date:
2017...
vol.
40
no.
3
Summer
2017
of
Biography : An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
est. 1978
Biography
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* Contents derived from the 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Putting Lives on the Record: The Book as Material and Symbol in Life Writing,
single work
essay
This article develops an understanding of the role of life writing in putting marginalized voices on the record by examining the material and symbolic history of the book and its relationship with life writing. Taking two key points in the history of the book as its focus, the article argues that "the record" is a material and symbolic performative site that authorizes a life writer's claims to knowledge and experience. Through a reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's 1963 autobiography Les Mots (The Words) the article demonstrates the importance of the book to how life writers and scholars of life writing conceptualize the cultural, political, and social importance of telling stories from life. (Source: publication abstract)
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[Review] Postcolonial Life Narratives: Testimonial Transactions by Gillian Whitlock,
single work
review
— Review of Postcolonial Life Narratives : Testimonial Transactions 2015 single work criticism ; (p. 524-527)
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