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“Distinguished Ladies” and the Doctrine of Womanhood: Auto-surveillance and Autoperformance in Diamela Eltit’s E. Luminata “杰出的女士们”和女性主义:迪亚米拉·埃尔蒂特的《E.鲁米塔塔》中的自动监视和自动表现

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-10-17 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.229

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

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“A woman should not be so cheap” The Prostitute as a Constructed Other in Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories “一个女人不应该那么廉价”——妓女作为爱沙尼亚后苏联生活故事中的建构者

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-08-28 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.199

Riikka Taavetti

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To Leave Your Kindred and Your Father’s House: Contemporary Dutch Christian Border Narratives 离开你的亲属和你父亲的房子:当代荷兰基督教边境叙事

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-08-28 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.228

Quirina Huisman, S. Moenandar

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引用次数: 3

The Spaces of Citizenship: Mapping Personal and Colonial Histories in Contemporary Italy in Igiaba Scego’s La Mia Casa È Dove Sono (My Home is Where I Am) 我的家就是我所在的地方

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-07-17 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.193

Eleanor Paynter

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Ethics and Dialogue in Autobiography: The Cases of Vitomil Zupan and Lojze Kovačič 自传中的伦理与对话:Vitomil Zupan和Lojze kova<e:1> izei的案例

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-07-17 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.224

Andreas Leben

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Recent Zones of Portraiture: The Selfie 最近的肖像区:自拍

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.227

T. Bruś

引用次数: 4

Tiny symbols tell big stories: Naming and concealing masturbation in diaries (1660-1940) 微小的符号讲述重大的故事:在日记中命名和隐藏自慰(1660-1940)

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.209

L. Vermeer

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The Diary of Heinrich Witt 海因里希·维特的日记

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-05-08 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.220

Angelika Schaser

引用次数: 1

Arbeit ist das halbe Leben 工作是半生

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-04-27 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.219

Sarah Herbe

{"title":"Arbeit ist das halbe Leben","authors":"Sarah Herbe","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.6.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.6.219","url":null,"abstract":"Arbeit ist das halbe Leben…: Erzahlungen vom Wandel der Arbeitswelten seit 1945 (“Working is Half your Life…: Telling the Transformations of the Working World since 1945”), Kinder – Kuche – Karriere: Acht Frauen erzahlen (“Kids – Kitchen – Career: Eight Women Tell their Stories”), and Eigene Wege: Eine Bergbauerin erzahlt (“My Own Ways: A Mountain Farmer Tells Her Story”) are among the most recent volumes of the series “Damit es nicht verlorengeht…” (translated as “Lest We Forget…” on the website of the Department of Economic and Social History of the University of Vienna), edited by the association for the “Dokumentation lebensgeschichtlicher Aufzeichnungen” (“Collection of Biographical Records”) in Vienna. Both the collection and the series were founded in 1983 by the historian Michael Mitterauer, two years after the re-launch of the Mass Observation project in the UK (Sheridan 27), with the aim to document and archive the everyday lives of Austrians. The collection holds autobiographical manuscripts by more than 3,000 people, most of them born in Austria after 1900 (see Muller 2009, 93–94). Many of the contributions were elicited with the help of calls for contributions (“Schreibaufrufe”) that aimed at collecting material on specific topics. Gunter Muller, the curator of the collection, stresses the close cooperation of the association with those who respond to such calls: every single submission receives a detailed personal reply, and the respondents are assisted in their attempts to keep alive their memories and experiences for posterity. This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on March 15th 2017 and published on April 27th 2017.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126123377","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}

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Coming to One's Senses: Diaries and the Materiality of Mourning in Sophie Calle's Rachel, Monique 回归理智:索菲·卡勒的《瑞秋》中的日记和哀悼的物质性

The European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2017-04-27 DOI: 10.5463/EJLW.6.187

S. Wilson

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