“The Body Hair that Grows on the Head” by Donyol Dondrup, Charlene Makley

“…In this chapter, we introduce readers to the Amdo Tibetan comedian, poet and performance artist Menla-kyap [sMan bla skyabs] through a translation of his 2009 autobiographical narrative, “Views on Hair and Hairstyles.” …”
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Remembering what did not happen: the role of hypnosis in memory recall and false memories formation by Donato Giuseppe Leo, Donato Giuseppe Leo, Davide Bruno, Riccardo Proietti, Riccardo Proietti

“…Particularly, the employment of hypnosis in autobiographical recall (hypnotic regression) has been accused of favoring the creation of false memories, leading to therapeutic fallacy. …”
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Narrativas del conflicto y construcciones del pasado entre los q’eqchi’es: del relato de vida al mito by Agnès Bergeret

“…This article studies how the Q’eqchi’ of Cahabón (Alta Verapaz, Guatemala) relate to different past times, by examining the dynamics of two broad categories of narrative genre: established “stories” about ancestors and more autobiographical narratives about individual “suffering” experienced in recent times. …”
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B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart by Vanessa Guignery

“…This double movement (revealing the distance, reducing the distance) will be analysed in relation to Johnson’s theory based on a poetics of truth which rejects the lies of the novelistic form and places the autobiographical subject at the heart of the work. In the process, we will determine which forms of mimesis and of relationship to the real Johnson manages to establish.…”
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La transmutation identitaire au service de l’émancipation ethnoculturelle et de la revitalisation linguistique en Catalogne du Nord by Maria Antón i Álvarez de Cienfuegos

“…The study is grounded in 39 in-depth qualitative interviews, presenting a compelling collection of autobiographical narratives. The selected participants span different generations and originate from Northern Catalonia, a distinctive sociolinguistic setting within France.…”
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Zwodnicza szczerość(?) Jana Jakuba Rousseau czyli narracja jako kreacja i doświadczanie świata by Małgorzata Dagiel

“…The article analyses selected autobiographical works by J.J. Rousseau as a form of literary creation, as texts of culture that are rich in meaning, as the meeting place for the speaker, the text and the reader. …”
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Language in Flight: Memorial, Narrative and History in David Copperfield by Cathy Caruth

“…Yet if the novel thus dramatizes how traumatic origins can be represented in writing, it also asks what it means for autobiographical language to originate in a trauma. In this sense the novel is not only about the orphan who becomes an autobiographer, but about the emergence of a literary language when the self can no longer tell its own story. …”
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Nelson Mandela était-il communiste ? by Chloé Maurel

“…The analysis of his words, his actions and his autobiographical account allows us to provide some answers to these important questions.…”
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Le sainct esprit a yci pourtrait au vif ... Calvin's understanding of the Holy Spirit's modus operandi in the life of believers in the light of the preface to his Commentary on the... by E. Kayayan

“… The autobiographical details in Calvin’s Preface to his Commentary on the Psalms illustrate the modus operandi of the Holy Spirit working out an identification between the authors of the Psalms and the reader. …”
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Effectiveness of a Dyadic Technology–Enhanced Home-Based Horticultural Therapy on Psychosocial Well-Being Among People With Dementia and Their Family Caregivers: Multimethods Pilot... by Patrick Pui Kin Kor, Justina Yat Wa Liu, Arkers Kwan Ching Wong, Alex Pak Lik Tsang, Han Zhi Tan, Daphne Sze Ki Cheung, Humphrey Kwong Wai Leung, Frances Kam Yuet Wong

“…Caregivers reported potential positive effects of HT on the autobiographical memory retrieval of people with dementia. …”
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In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 by Claire Sorin

“…Yet, the deep originality of Eliza Farnham’s account lies in its gendered perspective, which combines traditional and radical views of the female sex and disrupts dialectics of public and private spheres. This partly autobiographical book blurs the frontiers between the “in” and the “out” and contains the seeds of the gynecocracy theories that the author subsequently expounded in a voluminous work aiming to demonstrate the absolute superiority of the female sex (Woman and her Era, 1864).…”
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Dissections in Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life (1998, 2000) by Hélène Tison

“…Gloeckner creates characters, notably a semi-autobiographical persona, who assume very different, sometimes contradictory, roles and positions, and her insistent and minute lifting of the skin of (mainly female) bodies can be read as an empowering gesture of displacement and repositioning, one that, through repetitions and variations, redirected gazes, erotic or pornographic scenes, engages the reader/viewer in a very direct, embodied manner.…”
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‘A place for everyone who gets it’: by Charlotte Johanne Fabricius

“… This article discusses the political potential of sharing comics and cartoons on Instagram when that practice lies in the intersection of autobiographical art, feminist activism, and for-profit influencer work. …”
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Quand le théâtre s’inspire du cinéma : Jean Cocteau, Sergueï Eisenstein et Tennessee Williams by Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch

“…For cinema brought about new ways of representing the world, thus providing the playwright with the means of escaping from the realist tradition and creating the “new, plastic theatre” he advocated as early as 1944. His autobiographical essays are peppered with references to famous filmmakers who helped him shape his language for the stage. …”
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L’archive (re)dessinée : documents et souvenirs dans les bandes dessinées d’Alison Bechdel by Côme Martin

“…Within her autobiographical work, Bechdel uses many written documents, from family letters to dictionary extracts. …”
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Adventures With Mommsen by Brian Croke

“…These various adventures with Mommsen demonstrate how much the business of doing research and writing about any individual or topic has changed especially in the last thirty years. Essentially autobiographical in approach, this paper also highlights both the role and the limits of autobiography in understanding one’s own education and scholarly development. …”
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To belong or not to belong : variations autour du mythe associatif chez Virginia Woolf by Stéphanie Ravez

“…Written in the same period, the autobiographical sketch ‘Old Bloomsbury’ goes back over the birth of the famous group of intellectuals to which the author’s name is closely connected. …”
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« Certains lieux de la peinture », comme expérience ontologique, de révélation chez María Zambrano  by Camille Lacau St Guily

“…Through painting, as she testifies in several of her writings, among others in Algunos lugares de la pintura, through her autobiographical essay, Delirio y destino, or in her text entitled “El idiota” and in all her essays dedicated to Velázquez’s “Niño de Vallecas”, María Zambrano lives personal and “privileged” experiences, with the being. …”
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La constellation comme pratique créatrice chez Virginia Woolf et Annie Ernaux by Suzel Meyer

“…This writing « in rhizomes » or rather in constellations shows the feminine et feminist culture of the authors and their partly autobiographical texts, and contributes to their feminist stance. …”
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Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“…Merton, who often wrote through an autobiographical medium, gradually moved away from an early emphasis on contemplative withdrawal to a belief that the monastic life is a form of counter-cultural solidarity with those who struggle for social transformation and justice. …”
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