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1 online resource (588 pages) |
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Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Writing and Reading Lives; Craig Howes -- Doing Biograpy; Manuela Costantino -- The Sensational Life of Latifa; Emily Hipchen -- Mediating Truths in Adoption Search Narratives; Mediational Failures; Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith -- Intimacies of Power; Laurie McNeill -- Memory Failure; Susan Tridgell -- Autobiographies of Asylum and Detention; 2. Mediating Historiers; Gabriele Linke -- "What happend to the story?"; Britta Feyerabend -- Quilting Auto/Biographies; Mirjam Truwant -- Female Authorship an the Idea of the German Nation, 1859 to 1939. |
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Marijke Huisman -- Selling the Self: Publishing and Marketing ... 3. Media Loops; Susanna Egan -- Auto/Biographical Impostures as Media Sensations; Carmen Birkle -- Meditation and Appropriation; Hannes Schweiger -- Borderless Identities?; Julia Rak -- Identity's Industry: Genre and Memoirs; Xu Dejin -- China Narratives, Mediation, and the Problemati of Readership; Jeremy D. Popkin -- Academic Autobiography; 4. Relational Selves; Roger D. Sell -- Mediational Ethics in Churchill's "My Early Life"; Micha Gerrit, Philipp Edlich -- Connecting Selves with Kitkitdizze ... |
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Leili Golafshani -- Negative Relational AutobiographyRichard Freadman -- "What for do I have to remember this""; 5. Inventing the Self; Eugene Stelzig -- Hermann Hesse's Fantastic Mediation(s) of the Self in "Steppenwolf"; Ioana Luca -- Between Two Worlds; Johan Callens -- Auto/Biography in American Performance; Michael K. Glenday -- Norman Mailer: Biography and Imaginary Memoir; 6. Crossing Genres; Manfred Mittermayer -- Intermediality in Thomas Bernhard's Autobiography; Regine Strätling -- Potential Autobiographies; Heidi Isaksen -- The Role of Border-Crossing in Mediating Dominated Voices. |
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Shannon Donaldson-McHugh -- Performing Autobiographical Limits7. Religion and Meditation; Bärbel Höttges -- No God's Land; Sabine N. Meyer -- Writing the Life of a Controversial Historical Figure; Kerstin Vogel -- Mediating Native Lives; John D. Barbour -- Tribal Religions in Modern Travel Narratives by Greene, Lévi-Strauss, and Chatwin; 8. Mediating Roots and Routes; Evelyn Hawthorne and Paul Vanouse -- Race, Jamaican Bodies, and Eugenics/Genomics; Mary Montemayor -- "Breaking the Silence; Yvonne Gutenberger -- Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi." |
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Sam Raditlhalo -- Migrations of Texts: Mediating Double ModernitiesAlexander J. Beissenhirtz -- Jazz Autobiographies as Vernacular Literature; Sabine Sörgel -- "Like an endless stream of lava and love ... "; Chris Barry -- Cultural Dialogues and Self-Constructions in Australia; 9. Speaking with the Dead; Zhang Xin-Ke -- Tombstone Inscription and Chinese Biography; Jianqiu Sun -- Photograpy and Psychography; Deborah Holmes -- Portraits of a Lady; Bernhard Fetz -- Performance and Mediality. |
Summary |
HauptbeschreibungThe essays by American, Asian, Australian and European critics collected here demonstrate the opening up of auto/biography studies to the border-crossing implied by the concept of mediation: processes of social and cultural translation are examined in various forms - from photographic self-representation to oral histories - and practices, from media coverage through marketing of written lives to performing the self. These essays reveal that auto/biography goes much further than the narrow examination of an individual's life; for instance, life narratives intersect human rights. |
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Subject |
Autobiography -- Congresses.
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Biography as a literary form -- Congresses.
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Autobiography |
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Biography as a literary form |
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Print version: Hornung, Alfred. Auto/Biography and Mediation. : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2012 9783825357368 |
ISBN |
3825373096 |
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9783825373092 (electronic bk.) |
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