Browsing Lives Outside the Lines: a Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar by Issue Date
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“You Bite It, You Write It:” Confession in Compulsory Diet Discourse
(2002-05-15)When my aunt died last year, she left behind over one hundred diet books. This inheritance, which included not only diet books but also handwritten calorie counts, food journals, marginalia, and weight tracking documents, ... -
Trauma and Testimony: Deconstructing Sexual Violence Narratives in Contemporary Memoir
(2014-05-15)According to Marlene Kadar, life writing has developed from a genre to a critical practice, and as a result, “we are able to reconsider the possible functions of life writing now” (11). My paper explores how rape survivors ... -
Photo of Eva Karpinsky & Ricia Chansky
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poster for the art exhibit
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outside the lines art exhibit introduction
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Conference Poster
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YFile – Conference, exhibit celebrates York research on gender and genre
(Y File, 2017-05-08)An international conference on May 15 to 17 will celebrate the achievements of York University Professor Marlene Kadar, a noted Canadian feminist studies and life writing scholar whose research interests cluster around ... -
Photo of Marlene Kadar & Sidonie Smith
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Crossing Borders with LGBTQ Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Life Writing: History, Trauma, and the Queer Autobiographical
(2017-05-15)This paper investigates the intersecting roles of sexuality, gender, race, and nationalism within the life writings of LGBTQ children of Holocaust survivors. While much work has examined intergenerational trauma within the ... -
Mar and Me: Following the Traces
(2017-05-15)In this paper I will trace the influence that Marlene Kadar's scholarship has had on my own thinking, while making more general comments about personal writing and collaborative research as feminist practices. . Marlene ... -
Black Feminist Intersectional Methodologies for Life Writing
(2017-05-15)This panel is comprised of three black feminist presenters whose research topics and intersectional methodologies are inspired by recognitions of the same gender and genre provocations that drive the work of Canadian ... -
Photo: "outside the lines" art exhibit at Winters Gallery
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Photo: "outside the lines" art exhibit at Winters Gallery
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outside the lines
(anagraphia, 2017-05-15)The exhibition Outside The Lines features 10 artists who represent the beyond and within of lines through their artistic practices. This exhibition brings together diverse ways of working with materials to show qualities ... -
Judy Chicago, the 1960s, and the Metaphor of Sex
(2017-05-15)“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” the feminist collective Guerrilla Girls once asked, underscoring visual art’s view of women as objects. Unsurprisingly, this masculinism underpins much life writing ... -
Jane Rule and the Archive: New Models for Researching Women’s Lives
(2017-05-15)Marlene Kadar's injunction to expand the conceptual framework of autobiography had implications not only for the study of the genre, but also for research about and by women more generally. The strict boundaries by which ... -
Masculinity and Migration: The Black Atlantic Lives of Henry Highland Garnet and Peter Thomas Stanford
(2017-05-15)Rev. Henry Highland Garnet (1815-82) and Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1860-1909) were nineteenth-century African American ministers whose dramatic lives intersected. Both descended from enslaved black southerners; both ... -
Frayed Edges: Mediating Women in Popular Culture
(2017-05-15)A decade and a half ago, at my thesis defense, Dr. Marlene Kadar said: “your work is interdisciplinary, so it will always have frayed edges. That is part of the richness.” Dr. Kadar’s devotion to critical innovative ... -
Curumin: Bíos and Thanatos in Brazilian contemporary movies
(2017-05-15)Biopics have found a promising market in Brazil. In the last twenty years, approximately fifty long feature movies were biographies of singers, actors, politicians, athletes, and musicians. The majority of the productions ... -
Disruption: Maya Angelou and the Singing Body
(2017-05-15)This presentation will provide of brief overview of the singing body in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), and All God’s Children Need ...