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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is all we can know.” -Marlene Kadar Marlene Kadar’s “Barbaric Poem” begins with a declaration from German philosopher and composer Theodore Adorno: “To write poetry after Auschwitz is ...

David was a white Barbadian who died in the Barbados Mental Hospital in 1963 at age 46. Although making sense of his story is meaningful to me for personal reasons, I have wondered what interest other people might have in ...

For decades it was argued that Canada had no connection to the Holocaust. However, by the end of the war hundreds of Canadians had assisted at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and hundreds more encountered it through ...