Langston Hughes chez Pierre Seghers : récit d’un engagement poétique by Annick Ettlin

“…It examines the choices and circumstances leading to the publication of several of Hughes’s works: his first autobiography, a volume of poetry (translated by François Dodat in 1955), a book in the series “Poètes d’aujourd’hui” and two anthologies in 1962 and 1966. …”
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Les effets de raccommodement du récit de vie : l’exemple d’anciens appelés d’Algérie by Corinne Chaput-Le Bars

“…I have locked for the effects of racommodement and resilience made by these autobiographies.…”
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(Auto)pathography, Photography, Trauma in Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project by Angeliki TSETI

“…Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project (2008) consists in a disguised autobiography and a fictional biography, and constitutes an eloquent example of Leigh Gilmore’s suggestion that life-writing trauma is often performed by an individual narrating their life story through the experience of others. …”
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The Metempiricism of Margins: Professor Anthony Aṣiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge by Toyin Falola

“…Contrary to the man-confining adage of “cut your coat according to your cloth/size,” the autobiography of Professor Aṣiwaju has exemplified that the Supreme God cuts and designs coat without the delimitations or regard of one’s size or cloth. …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…Crapalachia is a threnody for a wounded region that complicates imagined hierarchies of center and periphery and blends the worlds of fact and fiction as well as tragedy and comedy. The semi-autobiography mines so deeply for privation that, at its close, it lays bare some of the most hopeful principles of American transcendentalism. …”
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Ayuka’s Title of Daichin Khan: Examining Tibetan-Language Sources by Bembya L. Mitruev

“…The article examines materials contained in various Tibetan-language texts, such as the autobiography of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama and that composed by Desi Sangye Gyatso, biography of Fifth Panchen Lama, etc. …”
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H. G. Wells’s and E. M. Forster’s Transformative Arts: Theoretical Divergences and Formal Connections by Laurent Mellet

“…Wells’s books sometimes display an interrogation of the novel form in its interconnections with other prose genres (journalism, pamphlet, autobiography), while Forster’s novels often resort to liberal-humanist credos and other democratic stances which read as a plea for another society. …”
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From sick old man to mythical hero by Sandra Pitcher, Tammy Frankland, Nicola Jones

“… In his autobiography, Conversations with Myself, Mandela spoke about his concern that the world had a false image of him as a saint and semi-god (Mandela, 2012). …”
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„Wie die Geschichtsschreiber der Welt die Geschichte des Felsens schreiben“. Die zerschlagene Gedächtnislandschaft in der „Saison in den Alpen“ von Mieczysław Jastrun by Elżbieta Dutka

“…Numerous tropes and figures (e.g. the metaphors “chronicles of the earth” and “a book bound with stone snaps” referring to the mountains) and allusions to Słowacki’s poem In Switzerland make the Alps in Jastrun’s poem not only a “place touched by autobiography” (per M. Czermińska), discovered during a short stay. …”
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Feminism and Faith: Exploring Christian Spaces in the Writing of Sara Maitland and Michèle Roberts by Arina LUNGU-CIRSTEA

“…Nonetheless while Maitland focused on revising Christianity by making it incorporate essential points on the feminist agenda, Roberts felt the imperious need to discard her religious identity in order to become “her own woman”; moreover, in her 2007 autobiography Paper Houses she describes her Catholic upbringing as “authoritarian and misogynistic” (16).My essay addresses questions regarding the challenge of articulating one’s spiritual identity as a concatenation of feminism and faith; with this end in mind, I am drawing a comparative perspective between Maitland’s collection of short-stories A Book of Spells, in conjunction with selected essays, on the one hand, and Roberts” acclaimed novel Daughters of the House, on the other. …”
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Borys Hrinchenko in the memories of contemporaries by Mariia Ivashchenko

“…The object of the study was the autobiography of B. Hrinchenko, the memoirs of M. Hrinchenko, I. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…When Ernest Gaines chooses a woman as the individual subject for collective memorialization and the ideal medium of racial memory in his 1971 novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, he participates in a significant but overlooked genre of black masculine discourse, the composition of black authorship as historical/national authority through the voice and viewpoint of a female protagonist. …”
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Écritures, espaces et imaginaires cubains depuis l’exil by Michèle Guicharnaud-Tollis

“…Based on various texts (autobiographies, testimonies, poetry and fiction novel), we will study how the Cuban writers consider their own exile, then the use of different literary strategies which they implement to conceal or, on the contrary, to reveal the emergency of their new wandering and « transcultural » identity.…”
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« Moi, je revenais à ma mère ». Les trajectoires « scolaires » des frères et des sœurs comme lieu d’expérience de la différence des sexes au xixe siècle by Isabelle Matamoros

“…Some women, writing their autobiographies, remembered that they suffered from another handicap : their brother were widely favored as siblings, since their parents considered boys’ education as a priority investment. …”
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Flaubert et le récit autobiographique : Les Mémoires d’un fou by Claudine Gothot-Mersch

“…Cet article se propose d’explorer ce texte en détail, en cherchant à faire la part du réel et de la fiction, et en montrant chez le jeune auteur les ambiguïtés d’une démarche qui, sous couvert d’autobiographie, se confronte plutôt aux codes d’un genre littéraire, dans une perspective d’expérimentation.…”
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Le mal-vivre à l’école : une longue histoire ? by Julien Cahon

“…To do this, this work is based on the analysis of around ten literary or life stories (autobiographies, memories, etc.) compared to institutional ar-chival sources (in particular from the ministry of National education) relating to school life.…”
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Living out nonconformity: Restoration ministers and their diaries by Colin HARRIS

“…Secondly, it presents circumstances, relationships and personal qualities which helped these godly clergymen to continue ministering within the Church of England post 1662. Through their autobiographies and their diaries, this article analyses the personal narratives of Ralph Josselin of Earls Colne (Essex), Edmund Trench (Kent), and Oliver Heywood (Yorkshire).…”
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Lectures historiques et apprentissage de l’histoire chez les filles et les garçons, 1700-1815. Une analyse sérielle de leurs souvenirs by Pierre Caspard

“…That must not be a hindrance to the search for some regularities in the learning practices of these children: they bear testimony in historical memoirs, memories and autobiographies. We have systematically analysed 156 of them, 122 written by men, 34 by women born between 1700 and 1815. …”
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Sfera biograficului la incidenţa istoriei cu literatura by Alexandra-Oana Safta

“…L’ample étude qui s’ensuit nous introduit dans les genres littéraires considérés, depuis longtemps, à la périphérie de la littérature. Les mémoires, l’autobiographie, le journal intime, les lettres ont été toujours regardés par la critique littéraire comme des parias mais maintenant il y a un mouvement de récupération de leur statut littéraire et esthétique. …”
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Biography versus Fiction or the Value of Testimony in Jacobs’s and Stowe’s Narratives about Slavery by Anne Garrait-Bourrier

“…Via l’approche d’extraits de textes tirés de l’autobiographie d’Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, écrite sous le pseudonyme de Linda Brent et du roman de Harriet Beecher-Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin, nous soulignerons le témoignage historique commun qui ressort de ces deux textes. …”
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