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Author | : Leonor Arfuch |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1509543783 |
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This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture. Arfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories – what she calls the ‘biographical space’ – can be seen as symptomatic of the impersonalizing dynamics of contemporary times. Autobiographical genres, however, harbour an intersubjective dimension. The ‘I’ who speaks wants to be heard by another, and the other who listens discovers in autobiography possible points of identification. Autobiographical genres, including those that border on fiction, therefore become spaces in which the singularity of experience opens onto the collective and its historicity in ways that allow us to reflect on the ethical, political, and aesthetic dimensions not only of self-representation but also of life itself. Opening up debate through juxtaposition and dialogue, Arfuch’s own poetic writing moves freely from the Holocaust to Argentina’s last dictatorship and its traumatic memories, and then to the troubled borderlands between Mexico and the United States to show how artists rescue shards of memory that would otherwise be relegated to the dustbin of history. In so doing, she makes us see not only how challenging it is to represent past traumas and violence but also how vitally necessary it is to do so as a political strategy for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being in common.
Author | : Mark Rowlands |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0190241462 |
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Our memories, many believe, make us who we are. But most of our experiences have been forgotten, and the memories that remain are often wildly inaccurate. How, then, can memories play this person-making role? The answer lies in a largely unrecognized type of memory: Rilkean memory.
Author | : Martha Graham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 1999-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780788166853 |
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Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer, & teacher, has been called the most important & influential American artist ever born. From her birth in 1894 to her death in 1991, she remained an uncompromising individualist who sought nothing less than to map the mysterious landscape of the human soul. This book is Graham's own account of her life & career. Contains portraits of artists & innovators she has worked with: Louise Brooks, Helen Keller, Aaron Copland, Isamu Noguchi, plus students: Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli, & Madonna. More than 100 photos.
Author | : Jill Ker Conway |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0307797236 |
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J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives. In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and George Sand to W. E. B. Du Bois, Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt and Katharine Graham--the author suggests why it is that we are so drawn to the reading of autobiography, and she illuminates the cultural assumptions behind the ways in which we talk about ourselves. Conway traces the narrative patterns typically found in autobiographies by men to the tale of the classical Greek hero and his epic journey of adventure. She shows how this configuration evolved, in memoirs, into the passionate romantic struggling against the conventions of society, into the frontier hero battling the wilderness, into self-made men overcoming economic obstacles to create an invention or a fortune--or, more recently, into a quest for meaning, for an understandable past, for an ethnic identity. In contrast, she sees the designs that women commonly employ for their memoirs as evolving from the writings of the mystics--such as Dame Julian of Norwich or St. Teresa of Avila--about their relationship with an all-powerful God. As against the male autobiographer's expectation of power over his fate, we see the woman memoirist again and again believing that she lacks command of her destiny, and tending to censor her own story. Throughout, Conway underlines the memoir's magic quality of allowing us to enter another human being's life and mind--and how this experience enlarges and instructs our own lives.
Author | : Robyn Fivush |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0805837566 |
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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Charles P. Thompson |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1134783868 |
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Providing an unusual perspective on self and social memory different from the norm in social cognitive research, this volume describes the results of the authors' diary research now in progress for more than 15 years. It investigates the topic of autobiographical memory through longitudinal studies of graduate students' diaries. Recalled and examined in this volume, a recent collection of several long-term diaries -- spanning up to two-and-one-half years in length -- replicated and significantly extended the authors' earlier knowledge of autobiographical memory. These studies are analyzed for commonalities and differences within the entire body of their data. Organized by the major themes suggested by the authors' theoretical views, this volume will be significant to students and researchers of both memory in general, and personal or episodic memory in particular.
Author | : Fali S. Nariman |
Publisher | : Hay House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9381398003 |
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Before Memory Fades by Fali S. Nariman is a revelatory, comprehensive and perceptive autobiography – candid, compelling and authoritative.Internationally admired and respected, Fali S. Nariman is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He began his career at the Bombay High Court in November 1950, and has since been active in the legal profession. Over the years, he has held several prestigious posts at both the national and international levels. He became a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) in November 1999. He is the recipient of the Padma Bhushan (1991) and the Padma Vibhushan (2007). Starting with his formative years, when he had the good fortune to interact with many eminent judges and advocates, Fali S. Nariman moves on to deal with a wide variety of important subjects, such as, the sanctity of the Indian Constitution and attempts to tamper with it. crucial cases that have made a decisive impact on the nation, especially on the interpretation of the law, the relationship between the political class and the judiciary, the cancer of corruption and how to combat this menace, the author outlines measures to restore the now-low credibility of the legal profession, he also delineates his role in several high-profile cases. In recognition of his track record, the Government of India nominated him to the Rajya Sabha. He describes the highlights of his tenure there. Both members of the legal profession and the lay reader will find the contents informative and useful.
Author | : K. D. Wiggin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1924 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Heather Shaw |
Publisher | : Heather Shaw |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-11-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1453870652 |
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WRITE, MEMORY is three-part project for reflecting on, writing, and printing your life story. Though a series of questions, WRITE, MEMORY takes the reader through a process of remembering, evaluation, pattern recognition, and the selection and arrangement of life stories.In the HOW TO section, the reader becomes the writer by completing the customizable, fill-in-the-blank chapters. Chapters can then be sent to WRITE, MEMORY for the formatting and printing of 2 standard, 6 x 9 paperback books. Authors also receive a Web link where they can order as many books as they like at cost.Include up to 70 photos, plus music playlists, recipes, poems, songs, and inspirational quotes. WRITE, MEMORY is great gift for those who have always wanted to write an autobiography or memoir, and haven't known where to start. It can also be a lifesaver for those who have started an autobiography or memoir and have gotten stuck with too much material, too many choices, too little time.
Author | : David C. Rubin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1999-02-13 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780521657235 |
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This book reviews the latest research in the field of autobiographical memory.