{"title":"Burning Shame, Decolonizing (His)tory, and Writing Illness and Disability: The Year in Australia","authors":"Kylie Cardell","doi":"10.1353/bio.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66237701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complicit Filmmakers, Self-Made Women, and the Weltgeist on Horseback: The Year in Germany","authors":"Tobias Heinrich","doi":"10.1353/bio.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49249187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fighting Against Traditions of Silence: The Year in Portugal","authors":"Cláudia Maria Ferreira Faria","doi":"10.1353/bio.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47128568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay turns to the paratexts of No Friend but the Mountains, and the question of how this book should be read in these margins of the text. Focusing on both peritexts and epitexts—Richard Flanagan’s “Foreword,” Omid Tofighian’s “Translator’s Tale” and “Reflections,” and a review of the novel by J. M. Coetzee, “Australia’s Shame”—it examines the ethical challenge to Australian readers at this threshold of interpretation, and asks what responses we might make as beneficiaries and implicated subjects, and as Southern readers.
{"title":"No Friend but the Mountains: How Should I Read This?","authors":"G. Whitlock","doi":"10.1353/bio.2020.0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0102","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay turns to the paratexts of No Friend but the Mountains, and the question of how this book should be read in these margins of the text. Focusing on both peritexts and epitexts—Richard Flanagan’s “Foreword,” Omid Tofighian’s “Translator’s Tale” and “Reflections,” and a review of the novel by J. M. Coetzee, “Australia’s Shame”—it examines the ethical challenge to Australian readers at this threshold of interpretation, and asks what responses we might make as beneficiaries and implicated subjects, and as Southern readers.","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46878579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
to reflect on Goshgarian’s piece once more and deliberate on whether the tendency to rely on ethnocultural categories as the dominant markers (and dividers) of Ottoman identities obstructs a more robust representation of historical actors and agency. With this in mind, the volume’s contribution comes to surpass the sum of its parts in pushing its readers to consider the benefits of shifting to alternative registers of belonging and a more intersectional approach to bring to light additional aspects of identity and belonging in the late Ottoman world. The reader looks forward to exploring how the series will engage with such questions in subsequent volumes, which will no doubt add complexity to our understanding of the weave of that Ottoman fabric. Besides the field of Ottoman studies, the series’ initiative makes a contribution to life writing as a broader field of inquiry. Perhaps most significantly, it addresses an underemphasis on life narratives that do not originate in Western Europe and North America. Folding the Ottomans into the field will additionally aid comparative and transregional scholarship. Accordingly, Istanbul – Kushta – Constantinople is a worthy addition to the literature of its immediate field of study, and beyond.
{"title":"Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony by Hannah Pollin-Galay (review)","authors":"E. Friedman","doi":"10.1353/bio.2020.0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0096","url":null,"abstract":"to reflect on Goshgarian’s piece once more and deliberate on whether the tendency to rely on ethnocultural categories as the dominant markers (and dividers) of Ottoman identities obstructs a more robust representation of historical actors and agency. With this in mind, the volume’s contribution comes to surpass the sum of its parts in pushing its readers to consider the benefits of shifting to alternative registers of belonging and a more intersectional approach to bring to light additional aspects of identity and belonging in the late Ottoman world. The reader looks forward to exploring how the series will engage with such questions in subsequent volumes, which will no doubt add complexity to our understanding of the weave of that Ottoman fabric. Besides the field of Ottoman studies, the series’ initiative makes a contribution to life writing as a broader field of inquiry. Perhaps most significantly, it addresses an underemphasis on life narratives that do not originate in Western Europe and North America. Folding the Ottomans into the field will additionally aid comparative and transregional scholarship. Accordingly, Istanbul – Kushta – Constantinople is a worthy addition to the literature of its immediate field of study, and beyond.","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45668767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits by Leonor Arfuch (review)","authors":"Ksenija Bilbija","doi":"10.1353/bio.2020.0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48281157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women Activating Agency in Academia: Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir ed. by Alison L. Black and Susanne Garvis, and: Lived Experiences of Women in Academia: Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir ed. by Alison L. Black and Susanne Garvis (review)","authors":"Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle","doi":"10.1353/bio.2020.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47466852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biography and History in Film ed. by Thomas S. Freeman and David L. Smith","authors":"Ian Scott","doi":"10.1353/bio.2020.0098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44326333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WAAA and LEWA are accessible collections, and are neither highly stylized, nor overly dependent upon theoretical jargon. The intended readership appears to be other academic women, as well as those interested in gendered studies of academic subjectivity, but these titles will be valuable to both established lifewriting scholars and those readers looking for a less specialized treatment of auto/ biographical innovation. Readers seeking further work on gendered explorations of academic identity should consult their most recent collaboration with Linda Henderson, a collection of essays dedicated to motherhood in academia titled (Re) birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts.
{"title":"Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands by Sonja Boon, Lesley Butler and Daze Jefferies (review)","authors":"Astrida Neimanis","doi":"10.1353/bio.2020.0088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0088","url":null,"abstract":"WAAA and LEWA are accessible collections, and are neither highly stylized, nor overly dependent upon theoretical jargon. The intended readership appears to be other academic women, as well as those interested in gendered studies of academic subjectivity, but these titles will be valuable to both established lifewriting scholars and those readers looking for a less specialized treatment of auto/ biographical innovation. Readers seeking further work on gendered explorations of academic identity should consult their most recent collaboration with Linda Henderson, a collection of essays dedicated to motherhood in academia titled (Re) birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts.","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47692157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
arrives at an interesting recasting of de Man’s dictum in “Autobiography as De-Facement” (1979): “biography,” Swann writes, “can only always be a fleshing out, a belated and reactive attempt to root out or at least naturalize what is constitutively and adamantly virtual in the figure” (10). Which is to say, as I take it, that biography suppresses with its monumentalizing zeal the allegorical potential of the poet-figure that reveals the factitiousness or untimeliness of Romantic subjectivity. At the same time, however, biography is a key to our discovering the potent poet-figures. Suggesting the reciprocal relationship of the poetical text and biography, this formulation might become a good starting point for further research.
{"title":"Literary Impostors: Canadian Autofiction of the Early Twentieth Century by Rosmarin Heidenreich (review)","authors":"M. Worthington","doi":"10.1353/bio.2020.0094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0094","url":null,"abstract":"arrives at an interesting recasting of de Man’s dictum in “Autobiography as De-Facement” (1979): “biography,” Swann writes, “can only always be a fleshing out, a belated and reactive attempt to root out or at least naturalize what is constitutively and adamantly virtual in the figure” (10). Which is to say, as I take it, that biography suppresses with its monumentalizing zeal the allegorical potential of the poet-figure that reveals the factitiousness or untimeliness of Romantic subjectivity. At the same time, however, biography is a key to our discovering the potent poet-figures. Suggesting the reciprocal relationship of the poetical text and biography, this formulation might become a good starting point for further research.","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48835681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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