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.

New book review and creative pieces

2022-10-11

On behalf of the editorial board of the European Journal of Life Writing, I am very happy to announce that the EJLW has published a new book review and two new creative pieces.

Best wishes, Petra van Langen, Journal Manager

Read more about New book review and creative pieces

IABA Europe 2023, 5-8 July, Warsaw, Poland: Life-Writing in Times of Crisis

2022-09-12

New article, cluster and book reviews

2022-06-07

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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Continuity-in-Change in David Almond’s The Savage: Narrative Self-Shaping in Moments of Metanarrative

Emma-Louise Silva

93-111
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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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When Does the Genius do the Chores? Knowledge, Auto/Biography and Gender

Introduction: Knowledge Making, Everyday Life, and Gendered Scientific/Scholarly Personae

Johanna Gehmacher, Kirsti Niskanen, Katharina Prager

WG1-WG12
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Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Country House Science, and Personae for British Women in Science at the turn of the Twentieth Century

Donald L. Opitz

WG13-WG43
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A life in science – marriage as an epistemic relationship and the joint scientific persona of Astri and John Runnström

Kirsti Niskanen

WG44-WG69
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Im/possible Careers. Gendered Perspectives on Scholarly Personae around 1900

Johanna Gehmacher

WG70-WG102
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Marie Reidemeister and Otto Neurath: interwoven lives and work

Christopher Burke, Günther Sandner

WG103-WG129
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Editing a Scholarly Persona in the New Field of Women’s History – Gerda Lerner’s Integrations and Taboos

Katharina Prager

WG130-WG161
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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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Interstitial Living: Fragments towards an Ethics

Eric Daffron

C32-C64
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Remembering the American Queen: Aretha Franklin (1942-2018)

Julia Watson

C65-C69
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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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Elizabeth Grubgeld, Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland

Sara Strauss

R29-R34
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Katja Herges and Elisabeth Krimmer (eds.), Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture

Tobias Heinrich

R35-R39
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Marina Warner, Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

Souhir Zekri Masson

R40-R45
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