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Abstract: That the lives of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are often sidelined, both in the country's primary literature and in biographical research, suggests the need for a combined biographical-ethnographic study that seeks to examine the sharp vicissitudes of migrant lives in Beirut, which are often contingent on affective (Lebanese female) employer dispositions. Arguing that ethnography can function as a form of biographical inquiry, I explore the intersection between the narratives of migrant women and Lebanese women in a setting that regulates the existence of both. I therefore rewrite key episodes experienced by Meramo, a twenty-five-year-old Malagasy domestic worker in Lebanon, and I offer analysis of the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The two writers in focus, Sujatha Gidla and Yashica Dutt, have created two distinctive auto/biographical narratives: Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (2017) and Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (2019). This article analyzes the narrative strategies Gidla and Dutt use to tell their respective tales of individual lives against the background—or rather, the foreground, as will be argued—of life accounts of their family members and the history of their underprivileged communities, or Dalits, as a whole. Besides their Dalit heritage, the authors share other characteristics, among them their diasporic locations—both were living in the US at the time of writing—and their choice of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: [We played a game:] each said his mental age and Lacan said: I am five. In effect, it is an age before the superego . . . when one wants something, one wants it immediately.Lacan was his own mother, his own father, his own progenitor, hence desirous of possessing things and beings.This essay is a reading of Jacques-Alain Miller's unusual Life of Lacan, a text that Miller insists is not a biography. As Jacques Lacan's son-in-law, editor, and heir, Miller devoted himself to a stabilization of the Lacanian institution and discourse. Miller's reading of Lacan had been largely devoid of references to the analyst's life, despite his proximity. That remained the case until three decades after Lacan's death, when Miller ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When George Simson started this journal in 1978, in addition to declaring it would be an interdisciplinary quarterly—which in those days pretty much meant literary, historical, and psychological—he also hoped to make it a forum for international discussions of what he definitely thought of as "biography," but which over the years has come to take on the contours associated with "life writing"—the same thing etymologically, of course, but something now very different in the critical and theoretical realm. George pursued this goal of international relevance relentlessly. The first conference and proceedings publication sponsored by the journal, New Directions in Biography (1981), brought together biographers and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: South Africa is known to have one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. Among the rights guaranteed by the Constitution is the right to nondiscrimination based on the sexual orientation of an individual, as stated in Chapter 2 of the Bill of Rights (Constitution 1247). The inclusion of this clause was a landmark achievement for the South African LGBTQ+ community in the 1990s. Black women in particular played significant roles in the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights in South Africa, but only a handful of them have been given due attention. One prominent figure credited with contributing to the movement is Beverly "Bev" Ditsie. Born in Soweto in 1971, Ditsie is a filmmaker, television director, musician ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Uganda, one of the countries hardest hit by HIV thousands of parents, often living with HIV have written memory books for their children, recording family background, their own life experiences, and the child's early growth to guide the child after the writing parent passes away. Practiced as a part of public health outreach, memory projects have different features depending on their location and supporting organizations, but they often share a collective writing method being used by writers from an underprivileged class. Most memory book writers are HIV-positive widowed mothers with limited education who depend on small-scale farming, trading, or cottage-industry handicrafts for their livelihood. As a part of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In "Equal in Paris" (1955), an essay collected in his Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin describes wading through "a sea of acquaintances" in the City of Lights, where he "knew almost no one" (103). He categorizes the persons he did know (or more precisely, knew of), inscribing a hierarchy:Many people were eliminated from my orbit by virtue of the fact that they had more money than I did, which placed me, in my own eyes, in the humiliating role of a free-loader; and other people were eliminated by virtue of the fact that they enjoyed their poverty, shrilly insisting that this wretched round of hotel rooms, bad food, humiliating concierges, and unpaid bills was the Great Adventure. It couldn't, however, for me ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: American Women Activists and Autobiography examines six case studies of women activists' lives as written by themselves. Heather Ostman approaches the autobiographical projects of Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Dorothy Day, Angela Davis, Mary Crow Dog, and Betty Friedan by looking at what they shared and what they did not, especially regarding the authors' feminist rhetorics and the various ways their lives and social justice causes were entangled. This premise is particularly exciting for scholars interested in the relationship between life writing and social justice. Ostman's volume can be read as an evolution of themes (womanhood, sisterhood, motherhood, marriage, class, race, gendered body, conversion) threaded ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Carole Allamand's book on Philippe Leujene's groundbreaking work was published in 2018, the same year that the French autobiography scholar celebrated his eightieth birthday. Allamand's essay is at once an apology, or rather a defense, and a theoretical contextualization of Lejeune's scholarship within his wider opus and within the debates in literary theory of his time. In that respect, her enterprise not only coincided with the celebration of the author's eightieth birthday, but also the thirty-fifth birthday of the concept of the autobiographical pact by measuring its critical legacy, the debates it provoked, and the further research it inspired.However, the importance of this project extends far beyond a simple ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
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