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{"title":"Wounded Poetry Hands: The Poetics of Agha Shahid Ali","authors":"Junaid Shah Shabir","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2284703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2284703","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces how Agha Shahid Ali undergoes a paradigmatic shift from a postcolonial Indian poet to an (anti-colonial) Kashmiri-American poet. It opens with a detailed critical introduction t...","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138548240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theorising Lebano-Pathography: A Biographical Exploration of Medical-Cultural Pathologies","authors":"Sleiman El Hajj","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2259158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2259158","url":null,"abstract":"To introduce the special issue on illness writing in Lebanon, I theorise Lebano-pathography as a dual, potentially adaptable and reusable, (i) narrative intervention (form/method) that does not depoliticise the traumatic subject. Simultaneously, it is (ii) a body of writing (text) that seeks to illuminate the different ways one can be ill, and try to recover, in present-day Lebanon. While somatic manifestations of illness and their concomitant patient accounts are central to previous research in narrative medicine and illness writing, Lebano-pathography underscores a more versatile interpretation of illness encompassing cultural practice and/or clinical disease, and exploring in critically informed autobiographical text the two illness categories’ causal interrelationship. In the backdrop of the cadaverous political grid and economic tensions rending the country since the national tragedy of the August 4, 2020 explosion of Beirut Port, this volume unpacks the following thematic clusters: (1) Rewriting Illness: Pathographies of Gender and Sex; (2) The Alzheimer Spectrum: Cognitive and/or Cultural Memory Failure; (3) Walking the City: Medical Malpractice, Pedestrian Injuries, and Claustophobia; (4) The Bones Within: Immigrant Narratives and Vicarious Trauma; and (5) Surviving Trauma: Coping and Mental Health.","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135537281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narrating Sexual Blackmail in Lebanon: A Present-Day Pathography","authors":"Sleiman El Hajj","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2259156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2259156","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAn ongoing economic and financial meltdown, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the August 4, 2020 explosion of Beirut Port—since 2019, Lebanon has been assailed by a spiralling confluence of mutually exacerbating crises. The present-day poverty, hunger, and unemployment levels are coeval with an extraordinary rise of similarly hyper-endemic sextortion cases. While drawing on its author’s experience of sexual blackmail in Lebanon, this article narrates the various parameters of this pathology and its trauma—its perpetrators, progression, and victims—in relation to several documented instances of this illness, including three excerpts from my students’ memoirs (2020–2023). The resulting ‘pathography’ reveals sexual blackmail in Lebanon as a nuanced corollary of not only socioeconomic tensions, but also sex stigma. In a context where societal attitudes to sexuality remain, to a significant extent, regressive, being sexually active, regardless of sexual orientation, incurs a status quo of shaming and silencing that most affects the sexual and mental health of the country’s vulnerable groups: youth, particularly women, and queer individuals more generally.KEYWORDS: Sexual blackmailsex stigmasexual scammingyouth memoirspathography Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 A quick search on Google reveals a score of obstetrics and gynecology clinics in Beirut that market hymen reconstruction as a swift (30 to 40-minute) procedure ‘to eliminate your anxiety and bring self-confidence as well as happiness to your life’ (Dagher Citation2023).2 Some details in this pathography have been altered for reasons of privacy; in addition, pseudonyms, where relevant, replace real names throughout the essay.3 The Lebanese University, founded in 1951, is Lebanon’s only public university to date.4 Title IX is a federal law in the United States, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in educational institutions. Currently, both the Lebanese American University and the American University of Beirut operate Title IX offices in their establishments.Additional informationFundingThis article was written during the author’s appointment as Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, courtesy of a research grant, SRDC–S–2022–162, from the Lebanese American University.Notes on contributorsSleiman El HajjSleiman El Hajj is Assistant Professor of Creative and Journalistic Writing in the Department of Communication, Arts and Languages at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He is the recipient of the LAU Faculty Research Excellence Award 2022–2023. His research interests include creative nonfiction, gender studies, narrative constructions of home, queer theory, and Middle Eastern literature.","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135537282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Myth of ‘Wound’ Writing: The Multiple Surfaces of Jessica Au’s <i>Cold Enough for Snow</i>","authors":"Gretchen Shirm","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2257903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2257903","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe idea of writing from the wound is a pervasive concept in the discourse of writing, yet the relationship between language and trauma is a contradictory one. Writing ‘from’ the wound suggests a causal relationship between traumatic encounter and the writing, which fails to fully account for the symbolic rupture. Yet, the relationship between writing and wound can be seen more productively as involving a movement away from the wound instead of towards it. This process is enacted in Cold Enough for Snow, a work of autobiographical fiction, in which the narrator hints towards certain structural traumas, without describing those wounds. Instead, Cold Enough for Snow through its focus on surface descriptions, the preference for metonymy over metaphor, the coming together of different time strands, creates a veneer-like surface that gestures towards wounds. The novel moves the narrator away from a state of disconnection, towards a reconnection with the mother and others, following an intense period of reflection. In this way, the idea of wound writing can be seen in Cold Enough for Snow as a movement towards healing. The directionality of this movement is crucial to writers seeking to avoid traumatic repetition in their writing.KEYWORDS: Traumaautobiographical fictionJessica AuCold Enough for Snowwound writing Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsGretchen ShirmGretchen Shirm is the author of Having Cried Wolf, Where the Light Falls, and The Crying Room. Her scholarly writing in the area of testimony, trauma, and emotion has been published in Textual Practice, Critique, New Writing, Life Writing, and Australian Literary Studies, amongst other places. She was named a 2011 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist for her collection of short stories, Having Cried Wolf. Her first novel Where the Light Falls was shortlisted for the 2017 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her novel-in-stories The Crying Room was published in July 2023. Her fiction and criticism have been published widely, including in The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, The Australian, The Monthly, Art Monthly, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Review of Australian Fiction and Southerly.","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135150085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘An Awakening of the Senses’: Reading Julia Child's My Life in France as Gastrography","authors":"Lucy O’Connor","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2252995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2252995","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49653233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Couples: A Collective Life","authors":"Joe Moran","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2250931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2250931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47526703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflecting on Memory, Imagination and Place: Reading Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City Through a Cognitive Literary Lens","authors":"Merril Howie","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2250928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2250928","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41456382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A History of African American Autobiography","authors":"H. Ostman","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2244805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2244805","url":null,"abstract":"ThisHistory explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism, and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixedrace life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers.","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42996294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays","authors":"R. Porter","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2235146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2235146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59839606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fantasy and Dissimulation in the Memoirs of Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926)","authors":"R. Mairs","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2226834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2226834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43279979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}