Des artefacts ironiques ? Relectures de La Possibilité d’une île de Michel Houellebecq by Simon Bréan

“…The Possibility of an Island is a sophisticated display of literary artefacts, confronting a contemporary Frenchman autobiography to commentaries by post- human clones living two thousand years in the future. …”
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Aux frontières du politique et du religieux by Frédéric Sylvanise

“…The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman met en scène de manière spectaculaire deux figures de leadership noir-américain au XIXe siècle (Ned) et au XXe siècle (Jimmy). …”
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"History and Storytelling in Rodney Saint-Eloi’s ‘Quand il fait triste Bertha Chante’" by Bonnie Thomas

“…This article will explore the ways in which Saint-Eloi’s biography/autobiography/history contributes to his literary project of allowing silenced voices to speak and thereby helping to correct the omissions of colonial History.…”
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Les écrivains issus de l’immigration face à la guerre d’Algérie : quelle mémoire pour quelles victimes ? by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…However, far from only listing the different modes of inscription of the war in works of various statutes (story-testimony, fiction, and autobiography), this paper analyzes on one hand the way the writer remodels the community or domestic past, forging at the sametime a memory, that he transmits to its readers. …”
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L’Incipit de Jane Eyre : l’annonce d’une quête by Elise Ouvrard

“…Jane Eyre, a fictitious autobiography published by Charlotte Brontë in 1847, starts with the description of a little girl enthralled by the reading of The History of British Birds. …”
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Украина начала XX века глазами Константина Паустов- ского by Antoni Bortnowski

“…Konstantin Paustovsky spent his youth in the southern part of the Russian Empire and could observe all the historical processes happening to his country. In his autobiography Story of a life Paustovsky presents a very interesting view of Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century and during the Russian Civil War. …”
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O sujeito-escritor e as transformações no campo literário: o caso Cristovão Tezza by Igor Ximenes Graciano

“…Thus, we identify in the literary autobiography of Cristovão Tezza, O espírito da prosa, an example of a reaction of the center against movements that, in one way or another, misrepresent a certain concept of literary practice defended there, and that have their key in the praise of the "subject-writer", as Tezza puts it.…”
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Philosophy of grammatical person(s) in Erté’s work by Markov Alexander Viktorovich, Shtayn Oksana Aleksandrovna

“…In the same year Erté released his autobiography, where he presented the dialogical origins of his work. …”
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Rendre la parole. Quand les victimes mettent en récit les violences sexuelles dans l’Église catholique by Romaine Girod

“…Based on a corpus of sixteen autobiographies written by victims of sexual violence in the context of the Catholic Church in France, Switzerland and Belgium, this article analyses how sexual violence is put into words. …”
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El Niño Shuá: del estereotipo a la reivindicación de la vida y obra de Miguel Ángel Jusayú by Nelly  García  Gavidia, Carlos Adán  Valbuena  Chirinos, Carmen Laura  Paz  Reverol

“…We take a journey through the life and work of the master Miguel Ángel Jusayú (1933-2008), with the purpose of analyzing, based on his autobiography and the film El Niño Shuá by Patricia Ortega, the most difficult moments after the loss of the vision and the way he lived with the stigma of being blind in the Wayuu society to which he belonged and also his process of appropriating the writing of Spanish, whose mastery allowed him to guarantee his subsistence and also specialize and give an invaluable contribution to the grammar and writing of the Wayuunaiki language.…”
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Nelson Mandela était-il communiste ? by Chloé Maurel

“…How does he position himself in relation to communism in his autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom and in his pleadings during his trial? …”
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Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your (Complex) Mirror by Richard PHELAN

“…But, if the word “diary” is frequently used by the artist herself and by others to refer to her work, to what extent is the analogy or suggested kinship with verbal autobiography pertinent and in what way may it be said to actually inform her work?…”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…The essay elucidates the absent, ghost-like father-surrogate whose ‘half-hostile’ attitude leads to the tragic death or suffering of a blameless son, thereby providing the intersection of autobiography and Gothic literary tradition in these texts.…”
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Le creuset et l'orfèvre : le parcours d'Ahmad Amîn (1886-1954) by Emmanuelle Perrin

“…As he refers to in his autobiography, Hayâtî, his itinerary and literary output offers an illustration of the experience, the projects and the questions encountered by intellectuals who lived at the end of the reformist movement (islâh) and the cultural revival of the Nahda. …”
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“The Old Wild West in the New Middle East”: American Sniper (2014) and the Global Frontiers of the Western Genre by Lennart Soberon

“…Clint Eastwood’s war film American Sniper (2014), based on the autobiography of (in)famous Navy Seals sniper Chris Kyle, was met on release with considerable commercial success and political controversy. …”
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“Mes dernières volontés”: Testaments to the Life of Marie Couvent, a Former Slave in New Orleans by Elizabeth C. Neidenbach

“…As catalogs of material accumulation, acts of autobiography, and maps of social networks these wills suggest the ways Couvent and other former slaves created identities as free people through property ownership and personal relationships.…”
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A Life Lived in Class by Diane Reay

“…Taking Bourdieu’s work to the limits is to engage with his research affectively as well as intellectually, to recognise our own social and academic positioning in the same powerful way he recognised and worked with his own autobiography (Bourdieu, 2007). It also requires the deconstruction and reconstruction of his concepts in relation to our own distinct experiences. …”
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Adventures With Mommsen by Brian Croke

“…Essentially autobiographical in approach, this paper also highlights both the role and the limits of autobiography in understanding one’s own education and scholarly development. …”
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Jardins imaginaires en partage by Cécile Regnault, Magali Paris

“…After a reminder of the theoretical framework of the environmental autobiography of Clare Cooper Marcus, the theses of Gaston Bachelard concerning topoanalysis and material imagination, and the theories of Gilbert Simondon on the transition from imagination to invention, we study the potential of imagination in designing for and with others. …”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…This paper reconsiders the narrator-narratee contract in Villette and shows how the narratee’s rational presence turns dialogism into an essential feature of this very unusual fictional autobiography; and contributes to the creation of a truly subversive and original piece of fiction. …”
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