Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2254163
Merril Howie
AbstractThis interdisciplinary discussion of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights explores how techniques such as novel metaphor, multisensory imagery, and cinematic-style montages encourage a panoramic mode of readerly recollection, together with a heightened awareness of the slippery interplay between autobiographical memory and time, and the significance of cognitive scaffolding in human recall.Keywords: Didionmemorytimecognition AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank my two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on an earlier version of this essay. I am also very grateful to Lara Keys, Regina Fabry, and Adrian Howie for many engaging discussions, theoretical insights, practical assistance, and personal encouragement.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Didion, Blue Nights, 4.2 Didion’s multidimensional configuration of time, “a topic of central importance in contemporary societies,” thereby embraces both ancient and current perspectives. As Fleig notes, since at least “the eighteenth century … the humanities have associated time with concepts of progress and linearity which imply a development from premodern, cyclical notions of time to the sense of acceleration that is the hallmark of modernity.” Fleig, “Time and Space,” 411–412.3 In Joan Didion and the Ethics of Memory, philosopher Matthew McLennan studies Didion’s construal of “the normative importance and limits of memory” and positions her as “a modern moralist or ethical teacher” in a contemporary era where the notion of “public memory … is at best contested, and at worst is decaying or coming apart.” McLennan, Joan Didion, 1–3.4 For varied perspectives on how Didion’s vast oeuvre highlights interrelations among aesthetics, politics, and autobiographical writing, see the collection of critical essays in “Forum. Style as Character.”5 Vandenberg, Joan Didion, 106.6 Didion, Blue Nights, 4.7 Walker and Harbus, “Networks of Conceptual Blends,” 399; emphasis added.8 Matto, “Cognitive Approaches,” 138.9 Schaser, “Memory,” 346; emphasis added.10 Turner, “Cognitive Study,” 9.11 Caracciolo, “Cognitive Literary Studies,” 204; Nikolajeva, Reading for Learning, 4.12 Richardson, “Cognitive Literary Criticism,” 544.13 Ibid., 544–545.14 My use of the term panoramic memory throughout the essay denotes wide-ranging recollections of one’s lived experience that can “be taken in at a glance.” Draaisma, Why Life, 255. This broad-angled style of experiential remembering is akin to—but less narrowly defined—the stricter definition of panoramic memory that encompasses “the experience of total recall” in “near death situations.” Hoeckner, Film, Music, Memory, 123.15 Sutton, “Truth in Memory,” 157.16 Oatley and Djikic, “Writing as Thinking,” 11–12; Hogan, Cognitive Science, 160–162.17 Couser, Memoir, 14.18 See, for example, Smith and Watson, Reading Autobiography, 207; McCooey, Artful Histories, 4; Eakin, Living Autobiographically, 79.19 Gudmundsdottir, “Future’s
{"title":"Time and Memory in the Twilight Zone: Cognitive Literary Perspectives on Joan Didion’s <i>Blue Nights</i>","authors":"Merril Howie","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2023.2254163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2254163","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis interdisciplinary discussion of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights explores how techniques such as novel metaphor, multisensory imagery, and cinematic-style montages encourage a panoramic mode of readerly recollection, together with a heightened awareness of the slippery interplay between autobiographical memory and time, and the significance of cognitive scaffolding in human recall.Keywords: Didionmemorytimecognition AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank my two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on an earlier version of this essay. I am also very grateful to Lara Keys, Regina Fabry, and Adrian Howie for many engaging discussions, theoretical insights, practical assistance, and personal encouragement.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Didion, Blue Nights, 4.2 Didion’s multidimensional configuration of time, “a topic of central importance in contemporary societies,” thereby embraces both ancient and current perspectives. As Fleig notes, since at least “the eighteenth century … the humanities have associated time with concepts of progress and linearity which imply a development from premodern, cyclical notions of time to the sense of acceleration that is the hallmark of modernity.” Fleig, “Time and Space,” 411–412.3 In Joan Didion and the Ethics of Memory, philosopher Matthew McLennan studies Didion’s construal of “the normative importance and limits of memory” and positions her as “a modern moralist or ethical teacher” in a contemporary era where the notion of “public memory … is at best contested, and at worst is decaying or coming apart.” McLennan, Joan Didion, 1–3.4 For varied perspectives on how Didion’s vast oeuvre highlights interrelations among aesthetics, politics, and autobiographical writing, see the collection of critical essays in “Forum. Style as Character.”5 Vandenberg, Joan Didion, 106.6 Didion, Blue Nights, 4.7 Walker and Harbus, “Networks of Conceptual Blends,” 399; emphasis added.8 Matto, “Cognitive Approaches,” 138.9 Schaser, “Memory,” 346; emphasis added.10 Turner, “Cognitive Study,” 9.11 Caracciolo, “Cognitive Literary Studies,” 204; Nikolajeva, Reading for Learning, 4.12 Richardson, “Cognitive Literary Criticism,” 544.13 Ibid., 544–545.14 My use of the term panoramic memory throughout the essay denotes wide-ranging recollections of one’s lived experience that can “be taken in at a glance.” Draaisma, Why Life, 255. This broad-angled style of experiential remembering is akin to—but less narrowly defined—the stricter definition of panoramic memory that encompasses “the experience of total recall” in “near death situations.” Hoeckner, Film, Music, Memory, 123.15 Sutton, “Truth in Memory,” 157.16 Oatley and Djikic, “Writing as Thinking,” 11–12; Hogan, Cognitive Science, 160–162.17 Couser, Memoir, 14.18 See, for example, Smith and Watson, Reading Autobiography, 207; McCooey, Artful Histories, 4; Eakin, Living Autobiographically, 79.19 Gudmundsdottir, “Future’s","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136114091","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 : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2256647
Zakir Hussain
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsZakir HussainDr. Zakir Hussain is currently an independent scholar. He received his PhD in postcolonial studies from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India in January 2023. He works on the cultural expression of minority Muslims in postcolonial literary representations. His research interests include identity politics, postcolonial literature, resistance literature, historical fiction, Muslim writing, and Eurocentrism. He has published research articles on postcolonialism and historiography in relation to religion and the cultural dialogue|conflict between the West and Islam. He has published articles in journals such as English Academy Review, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Ars Aeterna, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, Pertanika: Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities etc.
{"title":"Rev. Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights, Pleasure, and the Local Cosmopolitan <b>Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights, Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan</b> by Rakhshan Rizwan, New York and London, Routledge, 2022, 254 pp., £29.59 (paperback), ISBN 9780367499150","authors":"Zakir Hussain","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2023.2256647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2256647","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsZakir HussainDr. Zakir Hussain is currently an independent scholar. He received his PhD in postcolonial studies from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India in January 2023. He works on the cultural expression of minority Muslims in postcolonial literary representations. His research interests include identity politics, postcolonial literature, resistance literature, historical fiction, Muslim writing, and Eurocentrism. He has published research articles on postcolonialism and historiography in relation to religion and the cultural dialogue|conflict between the West and Islam. He has published articles in journals such as English Academy Review, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Ars Aeterna, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, Pertanika: Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities etc.","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136012658","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 : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2254155
Ella Ophir
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsElla OphirElla Ophir is Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her most recent work focuses on Rachel Cusk’s neomodernism, and on Virginia Woolf and life writing, and has appeared in Critique, Woolf Studies Annual, and Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
{"title":"Rev. of Templates for Authorship: American Women’s Literary Autobiography of the 1930s <i>Rev. of Templates for Authorship: American Women’s Literary Autobiography of the 1930s</i> by Windy CounsellPetrie","authors":"Ella Ophir","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2023.2254155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2254155","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsElla OphirElla Ophir is Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her most recent work focuses on Rachel Cusk’s neomodernism, and on Virginia Woolf and life writing, and has appeared in Critique, Woolf Studies Annual, and Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136293731","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 : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2254165
David Hammerbeck
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 https://www.shambhala.com/lives-of-the-masters-series/.2 Manson, Charles. “Introduction to the Life of Karma Pakshi (1204/6 – 1283).” Bulletin of Tibetology. 45.1. Nmagyal Institute of Tibetology: Gantok, Sikkim. 2009. 25–51.3 Manson, Charles. The Second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi: Tibetan Mahāsiddha. Lives of the Masters. Shambhala: Boulder, CO. 2022. 84.4 Ibid 77.5 Ibid 1286 Ibid 214.Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid HammerbeckDavid Hammerbeck is a lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz. He earned his PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, and a Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book, French Theatre, Orientalism, and the Representation of India, 1770-1865, was published by Routledge in 2022. He has published academic articles for different academic presses, and has delivered talks and papers at conferences around the world.
{"title":"The Second Karmapa Karma Pakshi: Tibetan Mahāsiddha <b>The Second Karmapa Karma Pakshi: Tibetan Mahāsiddha</b> . CHARLES MANSON. Boulder, CO: Shambala, 2022. 288 pp., $27.95 (USD), ISBN 978-1-5593-9467-3","authors":"David Hammerbeck","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2023.2254165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2254165","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 https://www.shambhala.com/lives-of-the-masters-series/.2 Manson, Charles. “Introduction to the Life of Karma Pakshi (1204/6 – 1283).” Bulletin of Tibetology. 45.1. Nmagyal Institute of Tibetology: Gantok, Sikkim. 2009. 25–51.3 Manson, Charles. The Second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi: Tibetan Mahāsiddha. Lives of the Masters. Shambhala: Boulder, CO. 2022. 84.4 Ibid 77.5 Ibid 1286 Ibid 214.Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid HammerbeckDavid Hammerbeck is a lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz. He earned his PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, and a Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book, French Theatre, Orientalism, and the Representation of India, 1770-1865, was published by Routledge in 2022. He has published academic articles for different academic presses, and has delivered talks and papers at conferences around the world.","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094115","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}
{"title":"Rev. of Image of a Man <b> Rev. of <i>Image of a Man</i> </b> , A.BELSEY, Liverpool University Press, 2020, 262 pp., £90.00, (Hardback), ISBN 9781789620290","authors":"Suzanne Joinson","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2023.2254161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2254161","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Belsey, Image of a Man, 32 Belsey, Image of a Man, 23 Belsey, Image of a Man, 54 Vaughan, Journal & Drawings, 95 Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1646 Vaughan, Journal, 61 Vols, J4, 897 Belsey, Image of a Man, 1778 Vaughan, Journal, 61 Vols, J2, 819 Belsey, Image of a Man, 1710 Belsey, Image of a Man, 7611 Belsey, Image of a Man, 8912 Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 21813 Vaughan, Journal, 61 Vols, J4, 8614 Vaughan, Journal, 61 Vols, J42, 3515 Belsey, Image of a Man, 18116 Vaughan, Journal, 61 Vols, J42, 7117 Vaughan, Journal & Drawings, 1118 Belsey, Image of a Man, 19319 Belsey, Image of a Man, 221","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095371","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 : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2254154
Marina Deller
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 1.2 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 1.3 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 1.4 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 1.5 Rather than the victims holding or bearing shame, a sadly expected narrative when it comes to sexual assault.6 This resulted in the #LetUsSpeak/#LetHerSpeak campaign which can be found here: https://www.letusspeak.com.au/. On this site prominent Australian trauma writer, Bri Lee, is quoted saying “If I lived in Tasmania or the Northern Territory it would have been illegal for me to have ever written or published my book, Eggshell Skull. I can only imagine what it would feel like for an individual to go through the crime, then the justice system, and only then be told they don’t have the right to tell their story publicly.” Several authors and creatives testify to the power that writing and speaking about their assaults has allowed them and the detriment of these “victim gag laws”.7 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 72.8 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 72.9 It is worth noting that most of the (closely read) texts in this book are from the early 2010s with a few earlier, and the most recent being 2018 (Place’s works, an example of “dangerous” audacities). Including more recent examples of productive (for want of a better word) audacity to balance the slightly older ones might have further deepened this discussion.10 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 159-160.11 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 170.12 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 171.13 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 171.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarina DellerDr. Marina Deller is a writer and researcher at Flinders University of South Australia.
{"title":"Rev. of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity JENNIFER COOKE, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 234pp., £75.00 (Hardback), ISBN 9781108779692.Rev. of <i>Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity</i> JENNIFERCOOKE, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 234 pp., £75.00 (Hardback), ISBN 9781108779692.","authors":"Marina Deller","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2023.2254154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2254154","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 1.2 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 1.3 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 1.4 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 1.5 Rather than the victims holding or bearing shame, a sadly expected narrative when it comes to sexual assault.6 This resulted in the #LetUsSpeak/#LetHerSpeak campaign which can be found here: https://www.letusspeak.com.au/. On this site prominent Australian trauma writer, Bri Lee, is quoted saying “If I lived in Tasmania or the Northern Territory it would have been illegal for me to have ever written or published my book, Eggshell Skull. I can only imagine what it would feel like for an individual to go through the crime, then the justice system, and only then be told they don’t have the right to tell their story publicly.” Several authors and creatives testify to the power that writing and speaking about their assaults has allowed them and the detriment of these “victim gag laws”.7 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 72.8 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 72.9 It is worth noting that most of the (closely read) texts in this book are from the early 2010s with a few earlier, and the most recent being 2018 (Place’s works, an example of “dangerous” audacities). Including more recent examples of productive (for want of a better word) audacity to balance the slightly older ones might have further deepened this discussion.10 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 159-160.11 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 170.12 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 171.13 Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing, 171.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarina DellerDr. Marina Deller is a writer and researcher at Flinders University of South Australia.","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095670","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 : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2254156
Beth Kearney
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 5.2 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 4.3 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 11.4 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 21.5 Ali Smith, How to Be Both.6 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 2.7 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives,12.8 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 12.9 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 7.10 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 6.11 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 10.12 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 13.13 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 15.14 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 140.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBeth KearneyBeth Kearney is a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland (UQ), where she is writing a thesis on the role of photography in contemporary women’s life writing in French. More broadly, her research specialises in 20th and 21st century women’s literatures and visual cultures across the French-speaking world, with a focus on representations of women’s bodies and subjectivities and on the interactions between literature and visual art. Additionally, she has a strong interest in surrealism and modernity in France from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. She also teaches French language, literature, and culture to university students.
{"title":"Rev. of Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives <i>Rev. of Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives</i> , edited by MARLEENRENSEN AND CHRISTOPHERWILEY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 278 pp., $ 64.99 (eBook), ISBN 978-3-030-45199-8","authors":"Beth Kearney","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2023.2254156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2254156","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 5.2 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 4.3 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 11.4 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 21.5 Ali Smith, How to Be Both.6 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 2.7 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives,12.8 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 12.9 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 7.10 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 6.11 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 10.12 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 13.13 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 15.14 Rensen and Wiley, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, 140.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBeth KearneyBeth Kearney is a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland (UQ), where she is writing a thesis on the role of photography in contemporary women’s life writing in French. More broadly, her research specialises in 20th and 21st century women’s literatures and visual cultures across the French-speaking world, with a focus on representations of women’s bodies and subjectivities and on the interactions between literature and visual art. Additionally, she has a strong interest in surrealism and modernity in France from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. She also teaches French language, literature, and culture to university students.","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094589","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2221953
Teresa C. Zackodnik
Abstract This essay argues that letters to the editor are modes of “life storying” that document individual and collective makings of place as a collective Black feminist activism and politics. Using data visualization as a method of research and protocol of reading enables one to see that recalibrating how letters to the editor are understood, from a focus on the individual to one on the collective, reveals their political work across space and scale in the early to late nineteenth century. But digital humanities tools, such as data visualization, need to be used with attention to the foundational assumptions that underlie them and will not, alone, necessarily produce readings that put the individual and collective in generative dialogue. Rather, interscale readings that combine both foundational and new reading methodologies in the humanities may reveal more about Black women’s lives through this press form they used.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2221947
Kelly L Schmidt
Abstract This essay journeys through the life of Matilda Hawkins Tyler, a woman once enslaved to the Jesuit order of Catholic priests and to St. Louis University in the nineteenth century. It examines how diasporic violence ruptured and scattered the archival records about her life, obscuring how, over the course of the antebellum period, she strategized, negotiated, and labored to purchase her own freedom and that of her five sons. The essay further explores how digital methodologies can be employed to reconstruct elements of Matilda’s life, her social world, and her values, as well as of other Black women of her era. Using a digital network analysis of Matilda’s kin relationships and spatial analysis of the places where Matilda and her kin lived, the essay demonstrates how Matilda Hawkins Tyler cultivated a strong community, both in slavery and in freedom, who supported one another in surmounting their bondage and seeking stability and equality after they became free.
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