Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2027678
O. Aksakalova
Appearing exactly ten years after Philip Lejeune’s On Diary (2009), Desirée Henderson’s How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers is a timely book that elucidates critical approaches to interpreting diaries and attends to the questions of genre conventions and genre crossings, the historical statistics that lie about parity. But the fact is that I have still encountered discrimination and chauvinists, still struggle for crumbs, and still strategically try to dress like the French in order to navigate academia. Miller’s book is a quiet revolution that creates a new space for women’s friendships. She reminds us to cherish the friendships we have because what if, in the end, the erstwhile marginalia, and that marginal space relegated to women in academia and at large, is actually the central nerve of all creative intellectual life? Miller recognizes the transformative power and centrality of the nitty-gritty in women’s outer and inner lives, and the vital, enduring friendships they form.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2027654
Alex Belsey
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2033474
J. Ernest
{"title":"Rev. of Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865","authors":"J. Ernest","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2022.2033474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2022.2033474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":"583 - 586"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86351101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-18DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2027653
R. Hogan
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Pub Date : 2022-02-16DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2027652
Tom Smith
{"title":"Rev. of The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures","authors":"Tom Smith","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2022.2027652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2022.2027652","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"272 1","pages":"357 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76423192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2038940
Xiaojing Zhou
Abstract This article seeks to demonstrate that the “personal narratives” of rural migrant worker poetry can be read as testimonies to hidden violence, bearing witness to invisible or unapparent impact of globalization, urbanization, and dehumanizing exploitation of labor by local and global capitalism. Drawing on Judith Butler’s theory about the ethical relationship in testimonies, this article argues that the lyric speaker’s speech establishes an ethical relation of responsibility embedded migrant worker poetry.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2028443
Magdalena Maiz-Peña
{"title":"Rev. of Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits","authors":"Magdalena Maiz-Peña","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2022.2028443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2022.2028443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"199 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84600273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2012931
J. Baldwin
Abstract For many, there will be times of packing up one’s office and moving elsewhere—a process that will bring back memories of how and why certain books and materials were acquired, and involve decisions about whether to keep or discard them. A similar process can occur when materials are received by an organization from a deceased estate in addition to financial endowment. This essay explores such a process, its challenges and achievements, the significance of the collection, and its inevitable dispersal.
{"title":"Unpacking a Life: Dr Gertrude (Trudy) Spencer","authors":"J. Baldwin","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2022.2012931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2022.2012931","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For many, there will be times of packing up one’s office and moving elsewhere—a process that will bring back memories of how and why certain books and materials were acquired, and involve decisions about whether to keep or discard them. A similar process can occur when materials are received by an organization from a deceased estate in addition to financial endowment. This essay explores such a process, its challenges and achievements, the significance of the collection, and its inevitable dispersal.","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"79 1","pages":"25 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83767883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2038930
Eleanor Paynter
Abstract With the Rome-based soundwalk initiative “Invisible Guides,” migrant narrators lead neighborhood tours, recounting Roman history while bearing witness to their own experiences. This essay discusses the potential for these testimonial transactions between authors, participants, and urban space to challenge the invisibilization of migrant realities within the city center.
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