Conference Proceedings & Papers
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Transsexuality: a lonely journey of identity
(2017-05-15)The book of João Nery, Lonely Journey: memoirs of a transsexual thirty years later, reveals the author's route in all the stages of his struggle for body change. Born in a woman's body, John seeks a way that matches his ... -
In Search of the Black Fantastic
(2017-05-15)In Search of the Black Fantastic, Richard Iton’s theorizing about the “anticolonial labor” of cultural actors who disassemble and reimagine the nation in a post-colonial era resonates with Edwidge Danticat’s essay collection ... -
Iranian Women’s Autobiographies: Hybridity and Gender in the Diaspora
(2017-05-15)After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, many Iranian families fled to the United States. Their girl children grew up at the “border” between Iran and the US to become first generation Iranian/American women. This paper focuses ... -
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 ... -
“Photos from Hollandia N.G. 1944”: World War II Combat Nurse Beulah Johns’s ‘Everyday’ Scrapbook Testimony of War and Recovery
(2017-05-15)“Well, Diary, Restricted no more . . . . Hope you pass the censor to get to Alma for confidential peeping.” ~ Beulah Johns, last lines of her 1942-43 diary In July 1942, 36-year-old nurse Beulah Johns left her rural ... -
Movie Talk: Affective Impressions of Celebrity Interviews on the Cinematic Experience
(2017-05-15)In her 1992 account of the genre Life Writing, Marlene Kadar suggests that writing is personal, even if it is not autobiographical; a writer will leave behind hints of themselves in the piece no matter their intention. The ... -
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 ... -
“It’s good that I write this down”: Caribbean Life Writing by Danticat, Marshall, and Nunez
(2017-05-15)In Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature (2010), Kezia Page considers the work of generations of Caribbean writers whose work functions as cultural remittances which posit returns of varying kinds ... -
Lives at the End of the Line: Aging, Elegy, Comics, and Care
(2017-05-15)In her introduction to Extraordinary Bodies, Rosemarie Garland Thomson adds, to a long list of the different forms disability might take, the observation that “everyone is subject to the gradually disabling process of ... -
True Crime: The Documentary Aesthetics of Maggie Nelson and Taryn Simon
(2017-05-15)“True Crime” as a genre traffics in gendered tropes—the murderous husband, the young woman under the spell of a charismatic killer, the manipulative wife, and the alienated male adolescent, to name a few. Indeed, in The ... -
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 ... -
Kim Thúy’s Rú and the Art of the Anecdote
(2017-05-15)The gradual female gendering of Thúy's text as it moves forward is nicely wrapped in the comfortable and seemingly simple form of the anecdote, so that the text comes to represent, in both its genre and gender, what (in ... -
Pedagogical Autoethnography: Autoethnographic Research with Graduate Teaching Assistants in an ESL Environment.
(2017-05-15)In the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez campus (UPRM), the Basic English and Intermediate English Sequences are primarily taught by the by Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) who are instructors of record enrolled in ... -
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 ... -
Milk Poems and Blood Poems: Autobiographical Poetry and the New Nicaraguan Woman
(2017-05-15)In 1967, La Prensa Literaria, Nicaragua’s most highly regarded literary magazine, laments that Nicaragua is “overpopulated” by “poetesses” who outnumber male poets 1,000 to 700 in the capital alone. Nicaraguan women were ... -
Writing through the Walls: Shirley Jackson, House/Wife
(2017-05-15)Shirley Jackson’s writing career was haunted by questions of genre. The mid-century New England writer is best known for her eerie novels about women whose selves splintered under the pressure of the houses they inhabited—a ... -
From Rationing to Ravishing: Crossing Lines in Vancouver
(2017-05-15)From September 17, 2014, to March 8, 2015, the Museum of Vancouver played host to an exhibition that staged the city’s transformation in the immediate post-WWII years as it went from a war-based economy to a burgeoning ... -
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 ... -
On Photo-graphy and Teacher (Self)Education
(2017-05-15)In the current imagistic context, the photographic image has taken on a different role due to its large-scale production and dissemination. As a consequence, contemporary approaches to teacher education in Visual Arts ... -
Passing Out: How Space Functions in the Politics and Performance of Masculinity On and Offstage
(2017-05-15)Perhaps no artistic form unsettles American masculinity more than the Western theatrical dance tradition. Men who pursue professional dance careers quickly learn that their chosen occupation not only carries the stigma of ...
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