{"title":"Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics","authors":"J. Miers","doi":"10.21827/ejlw.9.36079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.9.36079","url":null,"abstract":"Frederick Byrn Køhlert’s monograph on autobiographical comics argues that ‘the form’s self-reflective engagement with autobiographical representations […] might matter politically, especially for people on the social and cultural margins’. He thus places his work explicitly in a tradition of scholarship that frames comics autobiography as a vehicle through which marginalised voices can be given a platform, developing works such as Hilary Chute’s Graphic Women and standing alongside more recent scholarship such as Elisabeth El Refaie’s Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives. To this end, his opening description of the history of comics autobiography emphasises its origins in independent publishing, and its historical position as a counterweight to the types of heteronormative power fantasies narratives constitutive of its most popular genres.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117269852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (eds.), Handbook of Autobiography/ Autofiction, Volume 1: Theory and Concepts, Volume 2: History and Volume 3: Exemplary Autobiographical/ Autofictional Texts","authors":"Y. Delhey","doi":"10.21827/ejlw.8.35776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35776","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"16 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113984492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ordinary Yet Emblematic: The Transnational Correspondence Between an American GI and His Sweetheart during the Korean War","authors":"Elizabeth P. Bruns","doi":"10.21827/ejlw.8.35836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35836","url":null,"abstract":"Operating on the core premise of microhistory, that the lives of ordinary people are endowed with explanatory power for a specific period or event in history, this article is an analysis of the wartime letters from the 1950s, written by an American serviceman and his girlfriend, later wife, during the Korean War. The author addresses methodological implications regarding the unique characteristics that personal letters have on their utilization as primary source material in historical and biographical writing. Also included are reflections on the author’s close familial relationship to the historical subjects and how this impacts the overall objectivity of the article. An analysis of the letters demonstrates how the couple developed various techniques to mitigate the effects of distance, and how they coped with the pervasive sense of uncertainty and fear that consumed Cold War America. This study broadly contributes to the existing life writing literature by demonstrating how a life writing approach, when applied to a particular moment in history, can be utilized in historical study to tell a previously untold part of that particular moment.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"321 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122706507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sam Meekings, The After-Lives of Doctor Gachet","authors":"T. Bruś","doi":"10.21827/ejlw.8.35793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35793","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132690546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dining with Philippe Lejeune: Just Desserts","authors":"C. Brant","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.7.271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.7.271","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121959105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Exquisite Ironies of Philippe Lejeune: Nine Auto-Anti-Theses","authors":"J. Watson","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.7.250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.7.250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"600 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116291596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I face a dark future\". Letters from the Leprosy Archives, Bergen","authors":"Marie-Theres Federhofer","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.7.232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.7.232","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on patient letters sent by leprosy patients or their family members applying for place at a leprosy hospital. They were written between 1871 and 1911, are today part of the Leprosy Archives in Bergen and have not been presented, contextualised and analysed before. The article aims at both unveiling the illness experiences of those who suffered from the disease and demonstrating the way they recount their experiences in these letters. The concept of ‘small stories’ (M. Bamberg / A. Georgakopoulou) serves as entry points to access the narrative techniques in these autobiographic and biographic documents.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124715218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Let me tell you my life in a song” On Autobiography and Begging in Broadside Ballads of the Blind","authors":"Kari Strand","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.7.248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.7.248","url":null,"abstract":"What can street ballads tell us about the lives and realities of “common people”, of experiences “from below”? This article discusses the functional aesthetics and social context of one particular genre that has circulated in ephemeral song prints (skillingtryck) in Sweden: beggar verses of the blind. For centuries, such songs were sold in the streets and at market places as a means for the blind to earn a living, and a major part of them tell the life story, the sad fate, of their protagonists. Many prints declare the genre of autobiography on their very front page, quite literally selling the story of the protagonist’s life and addressing the audience’s compassion. How, then, do these narratives relate to real life? How is individuality and authenticity expressed within a genre that to a large extent relies upon conventions and formulas? As is argued, songs of this kind are a suggestive source material of vernacular literacy, as well as of social and personal history from below. Simultaneously, the discourse is marked by and shaped in a dialogue with the sighted world’s view of the blind.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132922497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarah Herbe and Gabriele Linke (eds.). British Autobiography in the 20th and 21st Centuries","authors":"Jerome Boyd Maunsell","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.7.247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.7.247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121399465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kenneth Womack’s Maximum Volume. The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin. The Early Years, 1926–1966","authors":"D. Kersten","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.7.236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.7.236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"2000 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128267876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}