Life writing matters in Europe
Both the practice and study of life writing flourish worldwide, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This major watershed in the history of Europe has generated intensive memory work through life writing, in the former satellite states of the Soviet Union and far beyond. Highlightin...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Winter
2012
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| Colección: | American studies (Winter) ;
217 |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : life writing matters in Europe / Marijke Huisman
- European French-language life writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Catherine Viollet
- Cultural models: Russian eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century francophone life writing / Elena Gretchanaia
- Translation politics : foreign autobiographies on the nineteenth century Dutch book market / Marijke Huisman
- Past, present, and future of autobiography competitions and archives in Poland / Paweł Rodak
- Museums of the self: autobiographic memory and the cultural practice of collecting / Christian Moser
- Voices and inscriptions: making sense(s) in autobiography / Sabine Kim
- Changing identity formations in nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals' autobiographies / Nataliya Rodigina and Tatiana Saburova
- A writer's life : the modernist group and questions of identity in autobiographical writing / Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir
- Self and the city: locus of identity in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: memories and the city / Esra Almas
- Construction of identity and the role of autobiography in V.S. Naipaul's work / Anna Izabela Cichón
- Letter-writing and the construction of a transnational family: a private correspondence between the Netherlands and Germany, 1920--1949 / Barbara Henkes
- A Dutch collector with a German heart: the regional aspect of life writing in the case of Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939) / Eva Rovers
- Uses of biography: the Swedish version / Lisbeth Larsson
- Well-behaved women seldom make history, but if they do--: reflections on gender and biography / Mineke Bosch
- Margaret Thatcher and Gro Harlem Brundtland: two women prime ministers from the spectre of a comparative biography / Anneke Ribberink
- Constructing generational identity in post-communist autobiographies: the case of Latvia / Martins Kaprans
- An anthology of lives: Jaan Kross's Kallid Kaasteelised and Estonian memorial culture / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
- Post-communist life writing and memory maps / Ioana Luca
- Biographies
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