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My Family History: the Past and the Present 我的家族史:过去和现在

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120653

Botao Wu

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The Role of Serendipity and Collaboration in Adding Texture and Family Context to the Career of Australian Educator Renée Erdos (1911–1997) 意外发现和合作在为澳大利亚教育家ren<s:1> e Erdos(1911-1997)的职业生涯增添质感和家庭背景中的作用

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120170

Paul Kiem

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Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography 传记学:对传记的反思

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-08-29 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2108307

K. Douglas

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No Cure: Illness through a Lebanese Arab Queer Lens 《无法治愈:黎巴嫩阿拉伯同性恋镜头下的疾病》

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-08-14 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2103892

Anthony El G.

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Irish Women’s Confessional Writing: Identity, Textuality and the Body 爱尔兰女性的忏悔写作:身份、文本性与身体

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-08-12 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2104117

María Amor Barros-del Río, Melania Terrazas Gallego

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Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis 危机档案中的群众咨询与市民故事

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-08-09 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2106611

Kerri Davies

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Reading and Seeing Women’s Life Writing Through Adrienne Rich in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? 从艾莉森·贝克德尔的《你是我妈妈吗？

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-07-22 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2097581

Janine Utell

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Repeat the Important Words Until You Understand Them: Metaphor, Memory and Meaning in Anne Carson’s Essaying 把重要的单词重复直到你理解它们：安妮·卡森散文中的隐喻、记忆和意义

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-07-07 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2093446

M. O’Rourke

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Life Writing as Micropolitics: Prussian CVs at the Dawn of Bureaucratic Meritocracy 作为微观政治的生活写作:官僚精英主义萌芽时期的普鲁士履历

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-06-16 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2086439

Stephan Strunz

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Dialogic Reading Spaces in Autofiction: Rachel Cusk’s Kudos 自传体小说中的对话阅读空间:蕾切尔·库斯克的作品

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2082264

Tijana Przulj

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