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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Women Making Freedom: Rethinking Gender in Caribbean Intra-Regional Migration from a Curaçaoan Perspective
(2017-05-15)In recent decades, the number of scholarly publications on the feminization of migration has grown exponentially, as women increasingly migrate in the contemporary era of globalisation. Although migration is rooted in ... -
Panel 5: Black Feminist Intersectional Methodologies for Life Writing – Kelia Taylor
(2017-05-15)Keila Taylor examines the process of conducting interviews involving non-religious black women subjects from an autobiographical perspective. I reflect on what I discovered about black women’s vulnerability, secrets, and ... -
Marlene Kadar's Life Writing: Feminist Theory Outside the Lines
(2017-05-15)In 1992, as part of her landmark collection Essays on Life Writing: From Genre to Critical Practice, Marlene Kadar published the essay "Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub and Into the Narrative." When taken with ... -
#FreeBree as a ‘Relay of Witnessing’: Remediation, Crowdsourcing, and Activist Art
(2017-05-15)On June 27, 2015, ten days after the shootings that killed nine worshippers at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, including Senator Clementa C. Pinckney, artist-activist Bree Newsome ... -
Autobiographical Genre in the Age of Complexity: A Case Study of Neuro-Autobiographies
(2017-05-15)This presentation aims to explore the autobiographical genre under the lenses of an emergent interdisciplinary methodology known as ‘complexity theory’ (Waldrop 1992; Jörg 2011; Wells 2013) in order to provide new insights ... -
Write Her Name: Re-Calling the Disappeared, Erased, and Unknown
(2017-05-15)The path of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2016 reveals that we collectively still participate in the forces of erasure and amnesia that have muted and continue to mute the presence of women as historical actors. This ... -
Geographies of Identity: Adoption Relationality and Bastard Nation
(2017-05-15)In her recent keynote address at the Conference for the Study of Adoption and Culture, Margaret Jacobs, a scholar of Indigeneity at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, critiqued the geometry and materiality of the adoption ... -
Between Paraphrasing and Becoming Another Self: Possible Plasticities in (Auto)biographical Narratives of People with Multiple Sclerosis
(2017-05-15)This presentation is part of a research in progress entitled “(Auto)biographies and subjectivities: the other of himself in multiple sclerosis”, that investigates the subjectivation processes in the life stories of people ... -
Film Biography, Hagiography, and Gender—The Case of Biography Hawai’i
(2017-05-15)George Custen, William H. Epstein, Dennis Bingham, and other theorists and critics of the biopic and film biography have observed that such life narratives not only serve to reinforce dominant ideologies, but through their ...