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Beyond the Voice of Egypt: Reclaiming Women’s Histories and Female Authorship in Shirin Neshat’s Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017) 超越埃及之声:在希林·奈沙的《寻找乌姆·库尔苏姆》中重新认识女性历史和女性作者身份(2017)

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37918

M. Antic

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New Women’s Biopics: Performance and the Queering of Herstor/ies 新女性传记片:表演和她的故事的酷儿

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37911

Belén Vidal

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The Reluctant Wife: Ginnen Upan Seethala and Gendering Revolution 不情愿的妻子:Ginnen Upan Seethala和性别革命

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37916

Kanchanakesi Warnapala

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Anne Smith, Ina Lohr (1903-1983). Transcending the Boundaries of Early Music 安妮·史密斯，伊娜·洛尔(1903-1983)。超越早期音乐的界限

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37923

C. Fischer

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The Enduring Influence of Female Special Operations Executive Agent Biopics on Cultural Memory and Representations in France and Great Britain 女特工传记片对法国和英国文化记忆和表现的持久影响

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.10.37917

Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal

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Breaking the Silence: A Testimonial of Resistance to Jewish Invisibility in Simone Veil’s Une jeunesse au temps de la Shoah 打破沉默:西蒙妮·维尔的《犹太青年》中对犹太人隐形的抵抗

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37658

Nancy M. Arenberg

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A Lyrical ‘I’ Beyond Fiction. Yahya Hassan and Autobiographical Poetry in Denmark After Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle. 一个超越虚构的抒情的“我”。《我的奋斗》后叶海亚·哈桑与丹麦的自传体诗歌。

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37640

S. Kjerkegaard

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Maximalist Autofiction, Surrealism and Late Socialism in Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid 米尔恰·克里特雷雷斯库《螺线》中的极端主义自传体小说、超现实主义与晚期社会主义

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37605

D. Mironescu, Andreea Mironescu

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Bodies and self-disclosure in American female confessional poetry 美国女性自白诗歌中的身体与自我表露

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37638

C. Bonasera

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Beyond the Threshold – Autobiography, Dialogic Interaction, and Conversion in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s and W. Abdullah Quilliam’s Poetry 超越门槛——杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯和w·阿卜杜拉·奎利亚姆诗歌中的自传、对话互动和皈依

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37639

Martin Kindermann

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