Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene (2022) belongs to the Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, an interdisciplinary series edited by Clare Brant and Max Saunders that engages life writing with critical thinking across disciplines. Situated within the environmental humanities, this volume examines a variety of life writing in the context of the Anthropocene. It builds the argument that life writing has a critical role in contesting human self-centredness which has caused the ecological damage that continues to define the Anthropocene. As such, the book rests on a paradox: how can a genre defined by the figure of a ‘human self’ contribute to dismantling power structures, such as speciesism, without perpetuating these damaging structures of domination? Seven chapters and one interview emphasise that the Anthropocene has been a discursively produced narrative of fatal material consequences; for this reason, minimising and hopefully restoring some ecological damage requires that we find more equal and responsible ways of relating to non-human life forms and the environment in language.
后人类人类世的生命写作》（2022 年）隶属于《帕尔格雷夫生命写作研究》（Palgrave Studies in Life Writing），这是由克莱尔-布兰特（Clare Brant）和马克斯-桑德斯（Max Saunders）编辑的跨学科丛书，旨在将生命写作与跨学科的批判性思考结合起来。本卷以环境人文学科为背景，研究了人类世背景下的各种生命写作。它提出的论点是，生命写作在反驳人类自我中心方面起着至关重要的作用，因为人类自我中心造成了生态破坏，而生态破坏一直是人类世的特征。因此，本书的基础是一个悖论：一种由 "人类自我 "形象所定义的文体如何能够在不延续这些破坏性统治结构的情况下，为瓦解物种主义等权力结构做出贡献？本书的七个章节和一篇访谈强调，"人类世 "是一种以话语方式产生的叙事，具有致命的物质后果；因此，要最大限度地减少并有望恢复对生态的破坏，我们就必须找到更平等、更负责任的方式，在语言中与非人类生命形式和环境建立联系。
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This article reports on two researchers’ experiences of navigating children’s night-time sleep, in relation to reading best-selling parenting books, published by professionals in the UK in the last 20 years. We felt we were ‘getting it wrong’ where we so badly wanted to ‘get it right’ for our children, because they did not sleep like the books described: silent, solitary, separate and for 12 uninterrupted night-time hours. It was also not possible to ‘read’ the advice without owning our own positionality: in particular our classed, professional identities. Perhaps this is always the case in research, and we should ‘treat our bias as a resource’ as seminal life history work urges. We found we could not but take the advice personally, which tended to focus on behaviour-orientated strategies within the routines and rituals around night-time sleep. We harness an under-studied approach within Early Childhood research, Reader-Response theory, which argues reading is a transaction; the reader brings personal context to the text at the same time as gleaning information from it. Seeing reading as a transaction helps us understand how our identities feed into our reading: our readings shape, but also are shaped by our contexts.
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On 21 November 2022, to nobody’s surprise, Donald J. Trump announced he would seek to become the Republican candidate for the 2024 US Presidential elections – and, both among those who have officially announced to be doing the same, as well as those who are likely to do so, his chances of securing the nomination are significant. The current legal investigations have done nothing to change that. Given that he is then expected to run against incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden, whose popularity has been diminished over the past few years, Trump stands a real chance to be elected president of the United States of America a second time. Thus, Dan P. McAdams’s The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump, written and published in the context of the 2020 presidential elections as an attempt to offer, as the book’s subtitle phrases it, ‘a psychological reckoning’ with the highly controversial 45th US president, remains highly relevant.
2022年11月21日，唐纳德·j·特朗普宣布，他将寻求成为2024年美国总统大选的共和党候选人，这一点并不让人感到意外——无论是在那些已经正式宣布要这么做的人当中，还是在那些可能这么做的人当中，他获得提名的机会都很大。目前的法律调查并没有改变这一点。考虑到特朗普将与过去几年人气下降的现任民主党总统拜登展开竞争，他很有可能再次当选美国总统。因此，丹·p·麦克亚当斯(Dan P. McAdams)的《唐纳德·j·特朗普的奇怪案例》(The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump)在2020年总统大选的背景下写作和出版，正如书的副标题所言，该书试图提供对这位极具争议的美国第45任总统的“心理反思”，这一点仍然非常重要。
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Focusing on Germany and Austria from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, this erudite and thorough study aims at historicizing the use of diaries as scholarly evidence and historical sources in the academic disciplines of pedagogy and early childhood research, youth psychology, and the new cultural history emerging in the 1980s. For each of these disciplines, Li Gerhalter, the long-time curator and now director of the ‘Sammlung Frauennachlässe’ at the University of Vienna (https://sfn.univie.ac.at/hauptmenue/bestand/), traces whose diaries were collected, when, by whom, for which scholarly purposes, and to what effect for the formation and transformation of the respective academic discipline under scrutiny. In addition, the individual chapters shed light on the donors of diaries, the culture and practices of diary writing, and the different communicative and epistemological functions that diaries had for their writers and researchers.
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This three-part collection of personal memories was inspired by Otto Dix's triptych ‘The War’ (1929-1932). The horrors of war and presence of death Dix exposed in his painting form the implicit point of reference for three short stories of reconciliation in and after the Second World War. The three auto/biographical memories by and ‘as told to’ the author celebrate forgiveness and humaneness among ordinary people in and after times of war as the one way to survive and continue life after the pain and losses caused by war, which are not part of the stories. The condensed form of the triptych recalls Dix's painting as well as the sacredness of suffering and reconciliation as symbolized by conventional Crucifixion triptychs.
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In ‘The Future Imperfect’ Petra Rau reflects on the meaning of her mother’s narrowly averted attempt to discard the family photo albums, and on the function of the photo album as a retroactive personal narrative. The difficulty of reading family photographs that precede one’s own experience and recollection is the subject of the second part, an excerpt from the as yet unpublished family memoir Hinterland.
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In 'A Reflexive Autoethnographic Fragment: Epiphany in a Milk Float', David Turner uses autoethnographic writing to begin to reflexively consider how his life history might have led him to an interest in a particular topic of study that he was about to embark on as part of research on the development of expertise in sports coaching, associated with a Professional Doctorate in Education course.
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This work in autotheory documents my adoption of an interstitial lifestyle in 2021. I derived my project’s guiding concepts from Roland Barthes. After a foreword, which elucidates the project’s context, concepts, and genre, this piece turns to a series of fragments arranged by topic. Most of the fragments record my interstitial experiences or reflect on interstitial topics. In the margin are Barthes citations that inspired the project, a structural device borrowed from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments and autotheory.
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In this relational vignette Watson recalls growing up in and around Detroit as Aretha Franklin and other great local singers, many with Motown, rose to prominence. Franklin’s style was informed not only by her childhood singing gospel songs in her father’s church but also by her musical passion and activist politics. Unable to attend any of the informal tributes in Detroit around Franklin’s memorial service because she was out of the country, Watson relates how a Berlin gathering became a spontaneous memorial to Franklin’s musical genius.
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In The Encyclopedia of Life Writing, Francis Russell Hart is quoted as having written that ‘[m]emoirs personalize history and historicize the personal … memoirs are about individuals,’ but they can reflect ‘an event, an era, an institution, a class identity’ (qtd. in Buss 595). This fits in perfectly with Marina Warner’s Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir, her latest publication and most openly autobiographical one. On the one hand, crucial historical moments are personalized such as post-World-War II British neo-colonialism or ‘soft power’ in Egypt and the ensuing 1952 Cairo riots whose circumstances and consequences her parents, Emilia Terzulli and Esmond Warner, went through. On the other hand, Warner’s personal past, or rather her parents’ first meeting, wedding and various trips which transported them from Bari to London, then to a cosmopolitan post-war Cairo where the father opened a WH Smith bookshop, are historicized.
在《生活写作百科全书》(The Encyclopedia of Life Writing)中，引用弗朗西斯•拉塞尔•哈特(Francis Russell Hart)的话说，“回忆录将历史个人化，并将个人历史化……回忆录是关于个人的”，但它们可以反映“一个事件、一个时代、一个制度、一个阶级身份”。in Buss 595)。这与玛丽娜·华纳的《迷失的人生:不可靠的回忆录》完美契合，这是她最新出版的一本最公开的自传。一方面，重要的历史时刻是个性化的，比如二战后英国在埃及的新殖民主义或“软实力”，以及随后的1952年开罗骚乱，她的父母艾米莉亚·特祖利和埃斯蒙德·华纳经历了这些骚乱的环境和后果。另一方面，华纳的个人过去，更确切地说，是她父母的第一次见面、婚礼和各种旅行，他们从巴里到伦敦，然后到战后的国际化开罗，父亲在开罗开了一家WH Smith书店，这些都被历史化了。
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