Astrid Rasch is Associate Professor of English at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research examines memory culture at the end of the British Empire with a particular focus on memoirs from Zimbabwe, Australia, and the Caribbean, and postimperial memory politics in contemporary Britain. She is editor of the anthologies Life Writing After Empire (Routledge, 2017), Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (with Stuart Ward, Bloomsbury, 2019), and a special issue of Journal of Southern African Studies called “Writing Repression in Zimbabwe” (with Minna Niemi and Jocelyn Alexander, 2021). She heads the initiative Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa and the interdisciplinary social media project Trondheim Analytica. Her recent publications appear in History & Memory, Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Life Writing. She is currently working on a book project on post-imperial autobiographies with the working title Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Cultural Memory in Dialogue.
Astrid Rasch是挪威科技大学英语系副教授。她的研究考察了大英帝国末期的记忆文化，特别关注津巴布韦、澳大利亚和加勒比地区的回忆录，以及当代英国的后帝国记忆政治。她是选集《帝国之后的生活写作》（Routledge，2017）、《脱欧英国的帝国象征》（与Stuart Ward，Bloomsbury，2019）和《南部非洲研究杂志》特刊《津巴布韦的写作镇压》（与Minna Niemi和Jocelyn Alexander，2021）的编辑。她领导了“变革文献：南部非洲的文化与政治”倡议和跨学科社交媒体项目Trondheim Analytica。她最近的出版物发表在《历史与记忆》、《后殖民与联邦研究杂志》、《南部非洲研究杂志》和《生活写作》上。她目前正在从事一个关于后帝国自传的图书项目，书名为《帝国之后的自传：对话中的个人和文化记忆》。
{"title":"Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia ed. by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton (review)","authors":"Mary Tomsic","doi":"10.1353/bio.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Astrid Rasch is Associate Professor of English at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research examines memory culture at the end of the British Empire with a particular focus on memoirs from Zimbabwe, Australia, and the Caribbean, and postimperial memory politics in contemporary Britain. She is editor of the anthologies Life Writing After Empire (Routledge, 2017), Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (with Stuart Ward, Bloomsbury, 2019), and a special issue of Journal of Southern African Studies called “Writing Repression in Zimbabwe” (with Minna Niemi and Jocelyn Alexander, 2021). She heads the initiative Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa and the interdisciplinary social media project Trondheim Analytica. Her recent publications appear in History & Memory, Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Life Writing. She is currently working on a book project on post-imperial autobiographies with the working title Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Cultural Memory in Dialogue.","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42238770","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":"Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland by Elizabeth Grubgeld (review)","authors":"Muireann Leech","doi":"10.1353/bio.2021.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44283849","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":"How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers by Desirée Henderson (review)","authors":"Kathryn Carter","doi":"10.1353/bio.2021.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44548602","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}
The 2012 season of the popular reality television show Canada Reads—a competition that purports to select one book that all Canadians should read—featured three memoirs. The series follows a typical competition format: books are nominated by viewers, and their merits are subsequently debated on the show by celebrities, with one book per episode voted off until the “winner” remains. The 2012 competition erupted into a particularly heated debate over two of the three finalists, when Anne-France Goldwater suggested that Marina Nemat’s Prisoner of Tehran was not strictly true and that Carmen Aguirre—author of the memoir Something Fierce, which eventually won the competition—was a terrorist. As Julie Rak argues in her contribution to the edited volume Auto/Biography Across the Americas: Transnational Themes in Life Writing, “Canada Reads stopped being a game-show about nationalist forms of reading and became the focus of a serious discussion about memoir, nationalism, and ethics,” ultimately highlighting “the status of memoir as a transnational product” (54, 57). Something fierce, indeed. The controversy tested readers’ and viewers’ assumptions about truth in memoir, the autobiographical pact, and corresponding legalistic readings of authenticity and witness, what should or can be said in public, and what kind of literature counts as Canadian literature. The controversy involves entangled questions about nation, identity, migration, belonging, and who has the cultural authority to decide what constitutes truth—issues central to Ricia Anne Chansky’s edited volume about “transnational themes in life writing.” In Auto/Biography Across the Americas, Chansky has collected twelve thought-provoking essays focusing on “points of connectivity” (4), linking life writing across the Americas. Chansky argues that these narratives are characterized broadly by two key themes: movement and belonging. More generally, she argues that auto/biography studies would benefit from centering theories, narratives, and disciplinary perspectives that destabilize nationalist frameworks for understanding literature and identity. As Chansky puts it,
2012年的热门真人秀节目《加拿大读书》（Canada Reads）有三本回忆录，旨在选出一本所有加拿大人都应该读的书。该系列遵循一种典型的竞赛形式：书籍由观众提名，名人随后在节目中对其优点进行辩论，每集一本书被投票否决，直到“获胜者”留下。2012年的比赛爆发了一场关于三名决赛选手中两名的特别激烈的辩论，当时安妮·弗朗斯·戈德华特（Anne France Goldwater）表示，玛丽娜·涅马特（Marina Nemat）的《德黑兰的囚徒》（Prisoner of Tehran）并非完全真实，回忆录《凶猛的东西》（Something Fierce）的作者卡门·阿吉雷（Carmen Aguirre。正如Julie Rak在其主编的《穿越美洲的汽车/传记：生活写作中的跨国主题》一书中所说，“加拿大阅读不再是一个关于民族主义阅读形式的游戏节目，而是成为关于回忆录、民族主义和伦理的严肃讨论的焦点”，最终突出了“回忆录作为跨国产品的地位”（54，57）。确实有些凶猛。这场争议测试了读者和观众对回忆录中真相的假设、自传体约定，以及对真实性和证人的相应法律解读，应该或可以在公共场合说什么，以及什么样的文学才算加拿大文学。这场争论涉及国家、身份、移民、归属以及谁有文化权威来决定什么是真理的纠缠问题，这些问题是Ricia Anne Chansky编辑的关于“生活写作中的跨国主题”的卷中的核心问题，Chansky收集了十二篇发人深省的文章，重点关注“连接点”（4），将美洲各地的生活写作联系起来。Chansky认为，这些叙事大体上有两个关键主题：运动和归属。更普遍地说，她认为，汽车/传记研究将受益于以理论、叙事和学科视角为中心，破坏理解文学和身份的民族主义框架。正如Chansky所说，
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Abstract:In this article, I look at contemporary German-Romanian author Herta Müller's use of autofiction from the point of view of minority memory discourse, expanding on the general critical reception of Müller's prose as the articulation of the traumas of Communist totalitarianism in Romania, and also directing attention to the multigenerational mnemonic structures of ethnic German history interrupting Müller's narratives. I trace a trajectory of Müller's interest in the officially repressed ethnic minority past and her exploration of the post-WWII deportations of ethnic Germans to labor camps in Ukraine and their forced relocation by the Romanian Communist regime to the Bărăgan Steppe, in the south of Romania. My analysis focuses on the recursive imagery of the lager (forced labor camp), of the young female inmate, and of the figure of the SS-father as the workings of postmemory. Through intermittent, direct, and oblique references, Müller articulates her own inherited past—in particular, her mother's five-year internment in the USSR. Ultimately, I situate Müller's autofiction within the broader postcommunist memorialization, signaling the absence of minority stories from the increasingly homogenized corpus of national remembering in East-Central Europe.
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{"title":"Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography by Paul John Eakin (review)","authors":"Sergio da Silva Barcellos","doi":"10.1353/bio.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42582648","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}
Post-Independence Ireland on performance art open the thesis up to other arguments, suggesting other ways for scholars to investigate disability writing in Ireland. In conclusion, some rationale regarding text choice and positioning of texts within the chapters would make Grubgeld’s striking analyses stronger, but this is a minor complaint against a persuasive, passionate, and urgently needed book that combines close scholarly attention to detail with the potential activism at the heart of the project. Grubgeld outlines how Irish disability life writers’ main battle is not against the constraints of the body, but against the constraints and the mostly limited expectations imposed by society. Examining the lived experiences of disability, as outlined by the many texts examined in this monograph, demonstrates how capitalist structures cannot accommodate difference and vulnerability, instead creating and maintaining systemic inequality. As a lifewriting scholar, I found the history of disability activism fascinating. Particularly pertinent was the discussion of how having a different body could affect the style of literary engagement—this is especially so in the case of life writing, surely the most embodied form of writing.
{"title":"Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books by Peter Fifield (review)","authors":"Chloe R. Green","doi":"10.1353/bio.2021.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Post-Independence Ireland on performance art open the thesis up to other arguments, suggesting other ways for scholars to investigate disability writing in Ireland. In conclusion, some rationale regarding text choice and positioning of texts within the chapters would make Grubgeld’s striking analyses stronger, but this is a minor complaint against a persuasive, passionate, and urgently needed book that combines close scholarly attention to detail with the potential activism at the heart of the project. Grubgeld outlines how Irish disability life writers’ main battle is not against the constraints of the body, but against the constraints and the mostly limited expectations imposed by society. Examining the lived experiences of disability, as outlined by the many texts examined in this monograph, demonstrates how capitalist structures cannot accommodate difference and vulnerability, instead creating and maintaining systemic inequality. As a lifewriting scholar, I found the history of disability activism fascinating. Particularly pertinent was the discussion of how having a different body could affect the style of literary engagement—this is especially so in the case of life writing, surely the most embodied form of writing.","PeriodicalId":45158,"journal":{"name":"BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42242770","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 article examines the interface of forms of auto/biographical writing and literary criticism, and how postcolonial life writers draw attention to the exhaustion of the formal and structural conditions of the genre as conventionally established and understood. Looking at Palestinian author Sayed Kashua's Track Changes (2020), I investigate how life writers draw attention to issues involved in writing and reading auto/biography, such as form, truth-telling, and referentiality, and I interrogate the labor involved in life writing and the subjective and shifting role of the auto/biographer in crafting, expanding, and exhausting the genre in a way that reflects political and cultural identities of postcolonial subjects.
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