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The Affective Topographies of Geneviève Castrée’s Graphic Life Narrative
(2017-05-15)This paper studies two autographics by the late Québecoise cartoonist Geneviève Castrée (Susceptible and “Blankets Are Always Sleeping”) and their mobilization online by a bereaved comics community. I begin with her ... -
Auto-Theory as an Emerging Mode of Feminist Practice Across Media
(2017-05-15)Joan Hawkins describes Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick (1998) as “theoretical fiction,” meaning not simply fiction informed by theory but fiction in which “theory becomes an intrinsic part of the ‘plot,’ a mover and shaker in ... -
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 ... -
The Autobiographical Pack
(2017-05-15)This paper seeks to revisit and revise the autobiographical pact in light of current work done on companion species, especially dogs, by emphasizing that Donna Haraway’s foregrounding of becoming together and the importance ... -
Autobiographical Writing of Women Professors: Between the Public and the Private, Reason and Emotion
(2017-05-15)In Brazil, The Memorial is written for hiring at the university or promotions within the career, even to receive an undergraduate degree. I present a historical overview of this academic genre, within a universe primarily ... -
Becoming Culturally (Un)Intelligible: Exploring the Terrain of Trans Life Writing
(2017-05-15)This paper offers a theoretical exploration of the discourses that are produced through trans life writing, as well as the convergences and dissonances that occur between the genre of trans life writing, transgender theory, ... -
Becoming Decolonial: Autobiographical Art Practice as Place of Enunciation for Decolonial Selves
(2017-05-15)Studies on Brazilians living in Britain show that, along with loneliness, unemployment and cost of living, the lack of proficiency in English is a key problem. However, there is little qualitative information about how the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Burning the Boundaries of Political Action: Feminism, Anarchy, and Militancy in Anne Hansen’s Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla
(2017-05-15)In this paper, I situate Canadian political anarchist Anne Hansen’s writing within the genre of feminist memoir, and her activism within feminist history. On November 22 1982, the firebombing of three Red Hot Video stores ... -
Can I Be a Witness? Reflections on Witnessing and Ethics from a Stó:lō Text
(2017-05-15)In Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson note that “acts of witnessing propel a variety of life narratives” (286). While we find acts of witnessing propelling a ... -
Childhood Exile: Memories and Returns
(2017-05-15)In the context of contemporary forced migrations, my paper tackles the problem of political exile. I will take as my main area of concern a unique experience—that of children whose parents were obliged to escape the ... -
Collections and Collaborations for Writing Black Women’s Wellness: Narratives of Practical Research, Pedagogy, and Practice
(2017-05-15)Stephanie Y. Evans will discuss her online library of Black women’s memoirs from around the globe and highlight research themes of Black women’s wellness through life writing. Specifically, the curator of this database ... -
Creating Disabled Birth, Curing Capitalism: Reading Ina Mae Gaskin’s Spiritual Midwifery as Memoir-Meets-Manual
(2017-05-15)In the 1970’s, the contemporary home birth movement began to take hold in the United States through a back-to-the-land counter culture movement and the feminist health movement, perhaps most inspired by the work of Ina Mae ... -
Crip Intrusions: Affect-ive Readings of Disability
(2017-05-15)I will engage with affective experiences of disability that are silenced within dominant discourses of disability theory. In order to tease out the particularities of the silences and absences I aim to address, I will ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“Don’t Freaking Act Here! This is Reality!”: Reality Web Series Ultra Rich Asian Girls as Digital Autoethnography
(2017-05-15)Kevin Li’s reality YouTube series Ultra Rich Asian Girls, featuring a cast of extraordinarily wealthy young Chinese Canadian women in Vancouver, British Columbia, has garnered controversy from its inception in 2014. The ...