European Journal of Life Writing

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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.

Symposium: What’s New? Topical Work in Transnational Life Writing.

2022-04-25

What’s New? Topical Work in Transnational Life Writing

Sixth Annual Symposium organized by Unhinging the National Framework: Platform for the Study of Transnational Life Writing

Friday, 20 May 2022, 9.30 – 17.00

Campus Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Free of charge, but please register before 15 May 2022: b.boter[at]vu.nl

Read more about Symposium: What’s New? Topical Work in Transnational Life Writing.

New articles, cluster and book review

2022-04-21

Volume XI, first creative article and book reviews

2022-03-11

Current Issue

Articles

‘I found what I had lost: myself’. Writing as a form of self-care in times of crisis

Aneta Ostaszewska

1-20
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The Burden of Racial Innocence: British-Invasion Rock Memoirs and the U.S. South

Matthew D. Sutton

21-40
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America in Performance of 20th Century Identity and Individualism in Chrissie Hynde’s Reckless

James Masterson

41-69
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I’m So Bored with the USA: Reflecting America in British Punk Memoirs of the 1970s

Anita Raghunath

70-92
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Autobiography and Narrative Resilience

Autobiography and the Autobiographical Mode as Narrative Resistances An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Souhir Zekri Masson

AN1-AN10
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A Harki History Lesson: Dalila Kerchouche’s Filiation Narrative Mon père, ce harki

Rebecca Raitses

AN11-AN27
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Story Telling: Writing the Body to Recall Life in Kanehara Hitomi’s Autofiction and Charlotte Roche’s Wrecked

Flora Roussel

AN28-AN49
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Toward a literary genre of ‘neither peace nor war’

Hadas Zahavi

AN50-AN74
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Narrative, Memory and PTSD. A Case Study of Autobiographical Narration After Trauma

Deborah de Muijnck

AN75-AN95
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Auster in? Auster out: Lifewriting as a Game? A novelist turns into an editor for the purposes of a unique experiment in lifewriting …

Michel-Guy Gouverneur

AN96-AN119
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Autobiography through Anecdotes in Joe Pieri’s Isle Of The Displaced

Souhir Zekri Masson

AN120-AN134
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Creative Matters

Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man (2016-2018)

Mirja Maria Thiel

C1-C31
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Reviews and Reports

Babs Boter, Marleen Rensen, and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.), Unhinging the National Framework: Perspectives on Transnational Life Writing

Catherine Brist

R1-R4
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Jennifer Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity

Malin Lidström Brock

R5-R8
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Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall, Witnessing Girlhood. Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing

Kathy Davis

R9-R11
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Reviews of publications by Steven King, Florence Boos, and Rachel Woodward and K. Neil Jenkings

T.G. Ashplant

R12-R28
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