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{"title":"Exploring the Nature of the Dialogical Self: The Young Widow Memoir","authors":"Katrin Den Elzen","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.6.223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.6.223","url":null,"abstract":"This paper intends to contribute to the ongoing debate on identity construction by offering a textual analysis of two memoirs that depict the experience of young widowhood: Unremarried Widow by Artis Henderson (2014) and When it Rains by Maggie MacKellar (2010). I refer to the texts as young widow memoirs and identify them as a sub-genre of the grief memoir. Drawing on Paul Eakin’s concept of narrative identity and Hubert Hermans’ dialogical self theory, the analysis investigates how the memoirists use narrative to negotiate and represent the multiple subject positions and conflicting voices that arise out of the experience of young widowhood, and how they position selves which existed prior to their loss in relation to their post-loss selves. The memoirs under review are shown to rebuild a relatively stable sense of self out of the multiple voices of loss. This article was based on a paper presented during the IABA-Europe Conference in 2015. The article was submitted on August 25th and published on April 13th 2017.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114437739","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":"Moscow Interdisciplinary Conference on Autobiography","authors":"T. Rollings","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.6.210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.6.210","url":null,"abstract":"The conference devoted to “Autobiographical writings in an interdisciplinary research environment: people, texts, practices” was held on 1–2 June 2016 in Moscow at the National Research University The Higher School of Economics (HSE). The conference aimed to promote the study of first-person writings as the product of specific social practices and marked a modest step forward in the study of autobiography in Russia. This article was submitted to EJLW on October 21st 2016 and published on April 9th 2017.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128050826","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":"Finding a Tongue: Autobiography Beyond Definition","authors":"Juliane Prade-Weiss","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.6.217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.6.217","url":null,"abstract":"The outset of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man presents a stage of life and language that is commonly evoked and, at the same time, systematically avoided in autobiographies as well as theoretical approaches to language: infancy. This textual strategy refers back to Augustine’s Confessiones , one of the most canonical autobiographies, reading it as a mainstay for an unconventional hypothesis: Rather that understanding infancy as an early stage of, or even before, language, Joyce expounds that the condition called infancy – the openness for receiving language while being unable to master it – accompanies all speech, be it childlike or eloquent. The article analyses Joyce’s text as one instance of a general paradox of autobiographical writing: initial aphasia. Setting out with birth or infancy, autobiographical texts precede articulate discourse. In Joyce, this paradox appears as starting point for a poetical – rather than theoretical – thinking about language, and language acquisition. This article was submitted on September 22nd 2015, and published on April 9th 2017.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114303740","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":"Bill: A Portrait of Discontinuties","authors":"A. Halliday","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.6.200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.6.200","url":null,"abstract":"A dialogue and a reflection are offered as a way of structuring the author’s thoughts about the life and personality of a dead friend (the dialogue), and his reflection on why he wrote the first dialogue as he did. In particular, the dialogue seeks to present the dead man as confusing to ‘read’. The reflection considers how much attention is given in the first to different aspects of the friend’s life, and offers possible reasons for these choices. Reasons include the personal characteristics of the author highlighted by his friendship with the dead man, and the author’s wish to reflect obliquely something of the felt experience of being the dead man’s friend. This dialogue was submitted to EJLW on August 7th, and published on April 9th 2017. Arthur Halliday is a pseudonym.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121306653","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":"Reassembling Documents of Life in the Archive","authors":"Maria Tamboukou","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.6.215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.6.215","url":null,"abstract":"We usually perceive archives as the end of the active life of a document, a place where a document is deposited to be protected and preserved for the creation of future memories and histories. And yet archives are beginnings as much as they are ends: they give their documents a new life and particularly with the advent of digitisation, new and diverse forms of life; but they can also deprive their documents of a future life, by hiding them through mysterious cataloguing structures, complex classification practices or merely spatial arrangements. Apart from curators and archivists who create and organise archives, often hiding documents in them, researchers also create archival assemblages when they bring together documents from diverse archives and sources around the world. But researchers, like archivists, often hide the archival strategies or sources of their research, through their immersion in the power relations of knowledge production. In this paper I look at the creation of an archival assemblage from my research with documents of life written by French seamstresses, active in the feminist circles of the romantic socialist movements of the nineteenth century. What I argue is that as researchers we need to become more sensitive to the life of the documents of life we work with; simply put: we cannot engage with documents of life while ignoring the life of documents within the archive and beyond. This article was submitted to EJLW on January 16th 2016, and published on April 9th 2017","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125846021","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 Socialist New Woman Redux: Hella Wuolijoki’s Life Writing in the 1940s","authors":"Katarina Leppänen","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.5.190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.5.190","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Autobiography can be thought of as, among other things, a speech of defence. The Estonian-Finnish author Hella Wuolijoki started writing her autobiography in prison and it very much reads as a legitimization of her political life choices. The article investigates how Wuolijoki depicts her own politicization, and how she plays with different author names in order to destabilize a taken-for-granted author position. The material used is her three part autobiography/memoirs, in which she explicitly declares that she is less interested in the facts of her life, but rather wants to keep them in their original memory-form. This gives her the freedom to recount events she deems important for her self-formation, rather than events or general interest. Feminist and autobiographical theory is used as a tool to investigate how dislodging the authorial position can open new ways of emphasising a woman’s political development. Thus, the literary formation of a political and feminist persona can be studied through her works. In this article I relate Wuolijoki’s writing to a way of theorizing the position of the political woman that could be found in Alexandra Kollontai’s pamphlet on the socialist New Woman written in 1918. The article analyses how Wuolijoki legitimizes her political activities by recounting her life as always intricately connected to contemporary political events. The article shows that political autobiography is a concept that can open new perspectives on women’s life writing and that the construction of an autobiographical persona that combines the concepts of woman and political may rely, as in this case, on types or models found in literature rather than life.  Swedish: Sjalvbiografi kan ses som, bland annat, ett forsvarstal. Den estnisk-finska forfattaren Hella Wuolijoki borjade skriva sin sjalvbiografi i fangelset for att legitimer a sina politiska livsval. Artikeln undersoker hur Wuolijoki skildrar sin egen politisering och hur hon leker med olika forfattarnamn for att destabilisera en forgivet tagen forfattarposition. Det analyserade materialet utgors av hennes sjalvbiografi/memoarer i tre band i vilka hon explicit deklarerar att hon ar mindre intresserad av fakta och snarare vill behalla handelserna sa som hon minns dem. Detta ger henne friheten att behandla skeenden som hon anser viktiga for sin egen formering snarare an sadant som kan vara av allmanintresse. Feministisk och sjalvbiografisk teori anvands som ett verktyg for att undersoka hur forskjutningen av forfattarens stallning kan oppna nya satt att betona en kvinnas politiska utveckling. I artikeln jamfor jag Wuolijokis skrivande med Alexandra Kollontajs satt att teoretisera den nya kvinnan i pamfletten den socialistiska Nya Kvinnan fran 1918. Artikeln analyserar hur Wuolijoki legitimerar sina politiska aktiviteter genom att standigt relatera till samtida politiska handelser. Artikeln visar att en lasning ur ett politiskt sjalvbiografiskt perspektiv kan oppna for nya p","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123354740","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":"gender and politics in auto/biographies","authors":"J. Ribberink, K. Niskanen, T. Kinnunen, Angelika Schaser","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.5.205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.5.205","url":null,"abstract":"Politicians all over Europe used to write about their lives, and keep doing so. Like other well-known persons they are “unusual biographical subjects”, because the biographical activity concerning their lives often starts while they are still alive. (Frank 1999). On the one hand, classical autobiographies written by politicians themselves (and their co-authors or ghost-writers) are published widely and are not only an important part of the memory politics and the construction of national history, but also a contribution to the stabilization of gender conceptions.(Depkat 2014, p .247-265; Ulbrich, Jancke and Bosch 2013, p. 5). Often the (auto)biographers intend to contribute to political and historical analyses. On the other hand, life writing has changed and diversified rapidly during the 20 th century. The widespread desire for authenticity and truth seems to be enormous, so we can see a process of democratization, including  a change of the concepts of private and public spheres. Nowadays everybody is entitled to present his or her life in public.(Ulbrich, Jancke and Bosch 2013, p.5). Life writing took place not only in hard copy, but in many different media, like radio, film, tv, blogs, facebook and other new social media. So it seems a good moment to look at the (auto)biographies and memoirs in the political area during the 20 th and the beginning of the 21 th century.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126501295","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":"Gender clashes and faux pas. the political diaries of Ulla Lindström, Swedish minister in 1954-66","authors":"G. Karlsson","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.5.150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.5.150","url":null,"abstract":"Gender clashes and faux pas The political diaries of Ulla Lindstrom, Swedish minister in 1954-66 The political diaries of Ulla Lindstrom caused a great sensation when published in 1969, three years after her resignation as Swedish minister without portfolio. She was the only woman minister in the Swedish government from 1954 to 1966, and her career had, according to the press, been characterized by faux pas or, as one reviewer of her diaries wrote: “(t)he silly Ulla /…/ of the botches, bodges, and gaffes.” He added that he himself had helped to write her down “with both malice and recklessness.” He was, however, not the only journalist putting down Ulla Lindstrom. A particular discourse or way of describing Ulla Lindstrom’s political persona was developed in the Swedish press during Lindstrom’s ministerial career. She started as the good-looking “pin-up girl” of the Parliament and ended up as the “shrew” of the party, the faux pas queen who was too talkative and thus in need of a muzzle. She was constructed as deviant, both as a woman and as a politician. In her political diaries Ulla Lindstrom herself compared the way she and her male colleagues were portrayed in the press. In my paper I will compare Lindstrom’s own political persona with the persona created in the press asking what was behind the creation of the “ faux pas queen”. Genuskrockar och fadaser. Statsradet Ulla Lindstroms politiska dagbocker Sasom atskillig forskning visat har det varit svart for politiskt aktiva kvinnor att forena de motstridiga krav som stallts pa dem som handlingskraftiga politiker och ”riktiga” kvinnor. Inom massmedieforskning anvands ofta ordet persona for att beskriva den personlighet som en politiker iscensatter pa den offentliga arenan, en politisk persona . Problemet for politiker ar att det i massmedia ofta skapas en annan persona an den som politikern sjalv iscensatter, sa beskriver t ex en forskare hur en ”false persona” av Hillary Rodham Clinton skapades under den sa kallade Whitewateraffaren ( Cit efter van Zoonen 2005:100).  Pressens bild av Ulla Lindstrom som ett pratigt och beskaftigt statsrad, vars karriar praglades av grodor, fadaser och klavertramp, kan ses som ett satt att ”skapa” en politisk persona och med den en diskurs; ett specifikt satt att tala och skriva om regeringens enda kvinnliga minister aren 1954-66. Nar Ulla Lindstrom efter sin avgang 1966 publicerade de politiska dagbocker hon fort under sin statsradstid var ett av hennes motiv sannolikt att hon ville ge sin version, dvs skapa sin egen politiska persona som motvikt mot den bild som skapats av henne i pressen.  I mitt bidrag skall jag ge exempel pa hur Ulla Lindstrom skapades som politisk persona och hur hon sjalv sag pa eller tolkade den bild som gavs av henne.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116322354","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":"Gender, Politics, and Participation: The Contests of Autobiographical Writings in Poland","authors":"Dietlind Huechtker","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.5.161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.5.161","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the connections between gender, politics of participation and of truth through the lens of life stories. They take as an example the contests of autobiographical writing which took place in Poland between the two World Wars. Poland after the First World War can be a good example to analyze the social and political meanings of participation, because it was a newly founded state with a huge tradition in autobiographical writing.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"85 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122664202","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":"Framing an Accusation in Dialogue: Kafka’s Letter to His Father and Sarraute’s Childhood","authors":"Lorna Martens","doi":"10.5463/EJLW.5.207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5463/EJLW.5.207","url":null,"abstract":"Kafka in the Letter to His Father mimics a courtroom trial with pleadings and rejoinders; Sarraute in Childhood tells her story in the form of a dialogue between herself and an initially confrontational, later complicit interlocutor. Curiously, both autobiographical texts have accusatory agendas. Kafka levels an accusation against his father, Sarraute against her mother. Following Rousseau, autobiographies that accuse others and/or vindicate the self are not rare, but the art of accusation is delicate: in order to stick and not boomerang on the writer, the accusation must be persuasively delivered. This paper examines how Kafka and Sarraute, both lawyers by profession, balance the dialogue form and the accusation. It is argued that each writer uses his or her version of the dialogue tactically, to accuse the parent while camouflaging the accusatory agenda, but in the end to win the case. This article was submitted on August 29th 2016, and published on November 28th, 2016.","PeriodicalId":263826,"journal":{"name":"The European Journal of Life Writing","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116393181","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}