Figurations of Attachment in Sylvia Plath and Halina Poświatowska by Agnieszka Pantuchowicz

“…For these two women writers the change of the place of living (from America to England in the case of Plath, and from Poland to America in the case of Halina Poświatowska) was a significant event which can be read as a history in which the topographical change becomes crucial for the construction of autobiographical memory. This memory, partly constituted by the play of attachments and detachments, is also crucial for the understanding of the role of the ideas of home and homeland seen as a refigured space of attachment in which the idea friendship and its various bonds are links with what is close to oneself, even if this closeness is felt as unwelcome and troublesome.…”
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A Clinical Sociologist’s Journey as Children’s Rights Advocate by Yvonne Vissing

“…This article considers the importance of the social construction of children’s lives and the importance of autobiographical memory in understanding our professional choices. …”
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Writing Against Vanishing: Native American Autobiography and the Trope of an Ever-Pending Vanishment by Fabrice LE CORGUILLÉ

“…This article aims at exploring the sense of impending death that goaded Native American autobiographers in the nineteenth century; they made “colonization” rhyme with “destruction” rather than “revelation” as the etymology of “apocalypse” would suggest. …”
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La transmutation identitaire au service de l’émancipation ethnoculturelle et de la revitalisation linguistique en Catalogne du Nord by Maria Antón i Álvarez de Cienfuegos

“…The study is grounded in 39 in-depth qualitative interviews, presenting a compelling collection of autobiographical narratives. The selected participants span different generations and originate from Northern Catalonia, a distinctive sociolinguistic setting within France.…”
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Rendre la parole. Quand les victimes mettent en récit les violences sexuelles dans l’Église catholique by Romaine Girod

“…It shows that the autobiographical form produces a space within which authors reappropriate the narration of their experience and position themselves as epistemic subjects – a capacity they have often been denied. …”
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Frank Capra and Elia Kazan, American outsiders by Yves Carlet

“…Based on the two men’s autobiographical accounts, together with their films and biographical writings about them, this article examines the routes by which they sought entry into the dominant culture. …”
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Zwodnicza szczerość(?) Jana Jakuba Rousseau czyli narracja jako kreacja i doświadczanie świata by Małgorzata Dagiel

“…The article analyses selected autobiographical works by J.J. Rousseau as a form of literary creation, as texts of culture that are rich in meaning, as the meeting place for the speaker, the text and the reader. …”
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Language in Flight: Memorial, Narrative and History in David Copperfield by Cathy Caruth

“…Yet if the novel thus dramatizes how traumatic origins can be represented in writing, it also asks what it means for autobiographical language to originate in a trauma. In this sense the novel is not only about the orphan who becomes an autobiographer, but about the emergence of a literary language when the self can no longer tell its own story. …”
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Nelson Mandela était-il communiste ? by Chloé Maurel

“…The analysis of his words, his actions and his autobiographical account allows us to provide some answers to these important questions.…”
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Le sainct esprit a yci pourtrait au vif ... Calvin's understanding of the Holy Spirit's modus operandi in the life of believers in the light of the preface to his Commentary on the... by E. Kayayan

“… The autobiographical details in Calvin’s Preface to his Commentary on the Psalms illustrate the modus operandi of the Holy Spirit working out an identification between the authors of the Psalms and the reader. …”
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Effectiveness of a Dyadic Technology–Enhanced Home-Based Horticultural Therapy on Psychosocial Well-Being Among People With Dementia and Their Family Caregivers: Multimethods Pilot... by Patrick Pui Kin Kor, Justina Yat Wa Liu, Arkers Kwan Ching Wong, Alex Pak Lik Tsang, Han Zhi Tan, Daphne Sze Ki Cheung, Humphrey Kwong Wai Leung, Frances Kam Yuet Wong

“…Caregivers reported potential positive effects of HT on the autobiographical memory retrieval of people with dementia. …”
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Camille Laurens, Marie Darrieussecq : du « plagiat psychique » à la mise en questions de la démarche autobiographique by Anne Strasser

“…In fall 2007, Camille Laurens accused Marie Darrieussecq of « physical plagiarism », blaming her for pirating her autobiographical story, Philippe, to write a novel, Tom is Dead. …”
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Kulturelle Alterität als Exilerfahrung by Sabina Becker

“…Döblin’s explicitly intercultural positioning as a representative of literary modernism and urbanism should be analyzed in relation to the biographical dimension of his exile and leads to the consideration of whether and how intercultural writing in exile can be linked with the experience of alterity in a foreign environment. Based on autobiographical testimonies and memoirs, the article sheds light on Döblin’s encounters with America as well as on his paradigmatic role as an eminent representative of literary modernism and urbanism.…”
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Inside Paul Auster’s Crypt: Autobiography and Spectrality in Ghosts by Giorgos GIANNAKOPOULOS

“…Reflecting and complicating his own autobiographical writing, Auster’s early novel assumes the form of a postmodern detective story playing on the motif of criticism that views the criminal as author and the detective as reader while rendering both roles unstable and interchangeable. …”
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Emociones y sentimientos en la emigración familiar española a América (siglo XX). Perspectivas de análisis by María José Fernández Vicente, Alicia Gil Lázaro

“…All this involve a high emotional content shared through letters, testimonies, autobiographical writings and interviews, all of them are essential sources in this study.…”
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In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 by Claire Sorin

“…Yet, the deep originality of Eliza Farnham’s account lies in its gendered perspective, which combines traditional and radical views of the female sex and disrupts dialectics of public and private spheres. This partly autobiographical book blurs the frontiers between the “in” and the “out” and contains the seeds of the gynecocracy theories that the author subsequently expounded in a voluminous work aiming to demonstrate the absolute superiority of the female sex (Woman and her Era, 1864).…”
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Dissections in Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life (1998, 2000) by Hélène Tison

“…Gloeckner creates characters, notably a semi-autobiographical persona, who assume very different, sometimes contradictory, roles and positions, and her insistent and minute lifting of the skin of (mainly female) bodies can be read as an empowering gesture of displacement and repositioning, one that, through repetitions and variations, redirected gazes, erotic or pornographic scenes, engages the reader/viewer in a very direct, embodied manner.…”
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Rougissement littéraire by Ina Schenker

“…It points out that in neighbouring France in particular, there has been an intensive discussion of social origins for some time now, partly on the basis of literary and essayistic voices that deal with people’s origins and those of their parents’ generation in an autobiographical manner. Contemporary German-language literature takes up this thread, but increasingly ties it in with the present and opens up perspectives on the lives of class shame that are detached from auto-sociobiography. …”
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‘A place for everyone who gets it’: by Charlotte Johanne Fabricius

“… This article discusses the political potential of sharing comics and cartoons on Instagram when that practice lies in the intersection of autobiographical art, feminist activism, and for-profit influencer work. …”
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Quand le théâtre s’inspire du cinéma : Jean Cocteau, Sergueï Eisenstein et Tennessee Williams by Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch

“…For cinema brought about new ways of representing the world, thus providing the playwright with the means of escaping from the realist tradition and creating the “new, plastic theatre” he advocated as early as 1944. His autobiographical essays are peppered with references to famous filmmakers who helped him shape his language for the stage. …”
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