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European Journal of Life Writing is an interdisciplinary open access journal, published by the European section of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA Europe). The EJLW aims to provide a forum for work in the field of all forms of life narratives, with contributions ranging from conceptual to practical and creative work.

Call for Papers: Hybridity in Life Writing: How Text and Images Work Together to Tell a Life

2021-09-13

This is a call for papers for the international and interdisciplinary conference Hybridity in Life Writing: How Text and Images Work Together to Tell a Life. Organizers: Clare Brant (King’s College London) and Arnaud Schmitt (Bordeaux University & LARCA Université de Paris). Venue: Université de Paris, Paris, 7–8 July, 2022. Keynote Speaker: Pr. Teresa Bruś (Wrocław University). Deadline: 30 November, 2021

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New cluster and book review

2021-09-08

New articles, clusters and book review

2021-07-09

Current Issue

Articles

The Pain and Irony of Death in Julian Barnes's Memoirs Nothing to Be Frightened Of and Levels of Life

Maricel Oró-Piqueras

1-17
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A Winter in Bath, 1796-97: Life Writing and the Irish Adolescent Self

Amy Prendergast

18-40
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Breaking the Silence: A Testimonial of Resistance to Jewish Invisibility in Simone Veil’s Une jeunesse au temps de la Shoah

Nancy M. Arenberg

41-60
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Migrating Objects and Wanderers between Worlds: Cosmopolitan Selves in Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes

Eveline Kilian

61-87
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Mass Observation (1937-2017) and Life Writing

Mass Observation (1937-2017) and Life Writing: an Introduction

T.G. Ashplant

MO1-MO15
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'Subjecive Cameras': Authorship, Form, and Interpretation of Mass Observation Life Writings

T.G. Ashplant

MO16-MO44
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Woven Tapestries: Dialogues and Dilemmas in Editing a Diary

Dorothy Sheridan

MO45-MO67
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MO Diaries and Their Editors

Robert Malcolmson, Patricia Malcolmson

MO68-MO91
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Seven Late Twentieth-Century Lives: the Mass Observation Project and Life Writing

James Hinton

MO92-MO101
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Remembering Late Socialism

Remembering Late Socialism in Autobiographical Novels and Autofictions from Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction

Agnieszka Mrozik, Anja Tippner

RLS1-RLS14
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Growing Up as a Girl in Late Socialist Poland: The Personal, the Political and Class in Feminist Quasi-Autobiographical Novels by Izabela Filipiak and Joanna Bator

Agnieszka Mrozik

RLS15-RLS40
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‘How it all turned out alright’: Autofiction as Memory Form in Irena Dousková’s Novels about Childhood and Youth in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia

Anja Tippner

RSL41-RLS65
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Maximalist Autofiction, Surrealism and Late Socialism in Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid

Doris Mironescu, Andreea Mironescu

RLS66-RLS87
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Reanimating/Resisting Late Soviet Monstrosity: Generational Self-Reflection and Lessons of Responsibility in Alexei Ivanov’s Pischeblok [The Food Unit]

Ksenia Robbe

RLS88-RLS111
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The Self in Verse

The Self in Verse. Exploring Autobiographical Poetry. Editorial

Johannes Görbert, Marie Lindskov Hansen, Jeffrey Charles Wolf

SV1-SV12
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The Mask in Verse. Imaginary Poets and Their Autobiographical Poetry (Jan Wagner, Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern)

Jutta Müller-Tamm

SV13-SV32
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Bodies and self-disclosure in American female confessional poetry

Carmen Bonasera

SV33-SV56
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Beyond the Threshold – Autobiography, Dialogic Interaction, and Conversion in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s and W. Abdullah Quilliam’s Poetry

Martin Kindermann

SV57-SV74
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A Lyrical ‘I’ Beyond Fiction. Yahya Hassan and Autobiographical Poetry in Denmark After Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle.

Stefan Kjerkegaard

SV75-SV95
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Women's Lives on Screen

Acknowledgements

Eugenie Theuer, Julia Novak

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‘Mattering’ Women’s Lives on Screen: An Introduction

Eugenie Theuer

WLS1-WLS16
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New Women’s Biopics: Performance and the Queering of Herstor/ies

Belén Vidal

WLS17-WLS40
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‘Full cause of weeping’: Affective Failure in The Queen (2006) and The Crown (2019)

Bethany Layne

WLS41-WKS63
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American Poverty and Social Rejection in Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya

Paulina Korzeniewska-Nowakowska

WLS64-WLS76
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‘For better or for worse, there is history, there is the book and then there's the movie’: Foregrounding and Marginalizing African American Women in the Film Hidden Figures (2016)

Timo Frühwirth, Philipp Bechtold, Elisabeth Güner, Marie-Theres Krutner

WLS77-WLS105
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Giving Voice to a Portrait: The Intersection of Gender, Race, and Law in Belle

Kate Sutherland

WLS106-WLS125
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The Reluctant Wife: Ginnen Upan Seethala and Gendering Revolution

Kanchanakesi Warnapala

WLS126-WLS143
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The Enduring Influence of Female Special Operations Executive Agent Biopics on Cultural Memory and Representations in France and Great Britain

Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal

WLS144-WLS168
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Beyond the Voice of Egypt: Reclaiming Women’s Histories and Female Authorship in Shirin Neshat’s Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017)

Marija Antic

WLS169-WLS189
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What’s Whitney Got to Do with It: Black Female Triumph and Tragedy in the 2015 Lifetime Biopic Whitney

Jaap Kooijman

WLS190-WLS209
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Making Her Case: Dramatisation, Feminism, and the Law in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biopic On the Basis of Sex

Christina Schönberger-Stepien

WLS210-WLS236
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Women's Lives on Screen. Creative Section

‘The Great Scene That Never Happened’ – A Screenwriter’s Techniques of Blending Fact and Fiction in Creating a Compelling Character Arc in Biopics

Maria Hinterkörner

WLSCC1-WLSCC32
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Reviews and Reports

Philippe Artières, Un Séminariste assassin: L’affaire Bladier, 1905

Martyn Lyons

R1-R4
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Anne Smith, Ina Lohr (1903-1983). Transcending the Boundaries of Early Music

Christine Fischer

R5-R9
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