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On Learning to Love Your Mother-in-law: Remembering La Ménage in Colonial and Postcolonial Algeria 学习爱你的婆婆：回忆殖民地和后殖民时期的阿尔及利亚

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120149

Michelle Hamadache

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Searching for Moon Chow: A Joint Journey 寻找月食:一次共同的旅程

IF 0.4 3区文学

Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120593

Yu Tao, Benjamin Smith, Petra Mosmann, K. Poon, B. Walker

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Writing the Hearing Line: Telling Family Stories of Deafness 写听力线:讲述耳聋的家庭故事

IF 0.4 3区文学

Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120133

J. Kirkness

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Treading Warily into the Lives of Others 小心翼翼地介入别人的生活

IF 0.4 3区文学

Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120102

Karen Agutter

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Suicide in Nazi Germany: Transformative Family History 纳粹德国的自杀：变革的家族史

IF 0.4 3区文学

Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2119655

Jane Messer

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Interrogating the Ethics and Intentions of Family Life Writing Relating to the Holocaust 质疑大屠杀家庭生活写作的伦理与意图

IF 0.4 3区文学

Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-15 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120847

Tess Scholfield-Peters

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Dissonant Discourses: Evelyn Scott and Cyril Kay-Scott’s Experiences in Brazil (1914–1919) 不和谐的话语:伊芙琳·斯科特和西里尔·凯-斯科特在巴西的经历(1914-1919)

IF 0.4 3区文学

Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2116762

Maria das Graças Salgado

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The Objects of Family History: Eliza Bennett's Straw Wedding Bonnet 家族史的对象:伊丽莎·班尼特的草编结婚帽

IF 0.4 3区文学

Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120172

Fiona McKergow

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Pulling out the Most Colourful Threads: Revealing and Weaving Positionality into Collaborative Life Writing 拉出最丰富多彩的线索：在合作生活写作中揭示和编织定位

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Life Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2022.2120630

A. Piper, Samadhi Driscoll

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Writing the Lives of Ordinary People—Opportunities and Challenges 书写普通人的生活——机遇与挑战