Being an assistant to a shaman by Tanka Subba

“…This article is built around the author’s experience as a shaman’s assistant. This autobiographical account touches upon the poverty, beliefs in ghosts, and shamanistic practices in a Limbu hamlet of Kalimpong, which is a piece of land between Sikkim and Bhutan. …”
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'n Hoofstuk in die (outo)biografie van die predikant (pastor?) by J-A. van den Berg

“…Voices from literature, those of various pastors (biographical) and that of the author (autobiographical) direct the process of Participatory Action Research and supply the text. …”
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Dr. Andries Albertus Odendaal Snr., evangeliedraer in 'n multi-dimensionele konteks. 'n Kort historiese oorsig en sendingkundige evaluering van sy lewe en werk (Deel 1) by P. Robinson

“…The advantage of such an autobiographical approach is that it unlocks valuable information, which would otherwise be passed unnoticed, leaving an incomplete if not skewed portrayal of some developments in the past. …”
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Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State, By Claire Dunning, The University of Chicago Press, 2022 by Emily I. Nwakpuda

“…The author defends this proposition by leveraging a historical lens, archival data, and autobiographical descriptions to magnify readers' attention on the racially biased treatment of leaders, workers, and community members associated with nonprofit neighborhoods among diverse communities. …”
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Entre política identitaria y narrativas autobiográficas. Restituciones digitales de un proyecto de documentación lingüística en Bolivia (Proyecto DoBeS Yurakaré 2006-2011) by Vincent Hirtzel

“…In addition, this documentation project benefited from the collaboration of three speakers who agreed to record material of an autobiographical nature. We will focus here on this sub-corpus in relation to the challenges of global restitution; in terms of its content, target audience and circulation. …”
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Ecritures autobiographiques, remémoration et enjeux symboliques by Christine Plasse-Bouteyre

“…Our objectives will therefore be to evaluate how these autobiographical productions constitute specific discursive practices, testamentary and commemorative discourses as statements revealing themselves through rhetorical and formal expressions and precise themes for which we can define the conditions of production and the social and symbolic effects.…”
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Creative Citizenship – two journeys, one destination by Hargreaves Ian, Hartley John

“…It seeks to combine (i) autobiographical narrative storytelling – two of them, in fact; with (ii) an attempt to build concepts, themes and strategies out of that narrative, and how the two stories did indeed arrive at ‘one destination’; and (iii) plentiful use of visual prompts, combined with part-scripted, part-improvised dialogic commentary. …”
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Le récit de vie comme trajectoire. Une comparaison des (auto)biographies de Jean Paul et de Stendhal by Aurélie Moioli

“…It represents a narrative’s possible junction : the desired novel is the absent center that generates the autobiographical writing. On the contrary, in Jean Paul’s, real and imaginary trajectories endlessly combine to describe a continuous revolution around the figure of the author and around death. …”
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« My dear audacious Moore » : les poses de l’artiste décadent dans Confessions of a Young Man by Fabienne Gaspari

“…The discovery of Impressionism, of Naturalism and of the Decadent movement constitutes an original moment in Moore’s artistic experience in Paris, a time of learning and initiation amidst the French avant-garde. The autobiographical persona plays with rhetorical positions and intertextual references, both integrating and imitating literary influences and going beyond them through parody. …”
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La possibilité d’une île : la mythologie du Bronx, archipel enchanté, dans trois textes autobiographiques de Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

“…Jerome Charyn recently published an autobiographical trilogy (The Dark Lady from Belorusse, 1997; The Black Swan, 2000 and Bronx Boy, 2007) in which the main focus, more than his adored and fascinating mother at the heart of the story, more than Charyn’s childhood and adolescence, is the Bronx. …”
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The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi by Jolien Paeleman

“…In this paper I intend to show the poignancy of the words Rossi referred to and the implications they had on his architecture by offering close comparisons of Benjamin’s and Rossi’s autobiographical writings. In addition, this study examines how one of Rossi’s most famous architectural artefacts, the ossuary of San Cataldo cemetery at Modena, can be viewed as a coalescence of a Benjaminian thought-image, thereby fortifying the philosopher’s presence in modern architecture.…”
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Le Théâtre de la mort de Tadeusz Kantor : un « gué secret » entre les vivants et les morts by Virginie Lachaise

“…It would be tempting to place the whole Tadeusz Kantor’s theater under the sign of the revenance and haunting, so everything is back : the characters, situations, objects, spaces, words and sounds, almost all returning the autobiographical sphere and the religious history and mythology of Poland, homeland of the artist. …”
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Jane Eyre fait de la résistance by Claire Bazin

“…I propose to study this emblematic scene firstly by following three axes: a double metamorphosis where Jane defeats Mrs Reed who loses her composure, in a spectacular reversal of roles, and then by analysing Jane’s ensuing inner monologue, where the narrator’s I takes over from the character’s in this splitting of the narrative voice that is common to both novelistic and fictitious autobiographical forms.…”
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White Women in the 1960s Freedom Movement, From Memory to History: The writing of “Shiloh Witness,” a chapter in Deep in Our Hearts (2000) by Joan Browning

“…Browning, a white female veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, reflects on the writing of an autobiographical chapter she wrote for a collective book published in 2000 (Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement). …”
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De la crainte de la damnation éternelle aux prémisses de l’angoisse existentielle contemporaine : inquiétudes sotériologiques et eschatologiques chez William Hale White (« Mark Rut... by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…Such are some of the questions which are raised in this paper through a study of the autobiographical and fictional writings of William Hale White (« Mark Rutherford »).…”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Kipling also devoted several short stories to the subject, two of which (“A Sahib’s War” and “The Captive”, both published in Traffics and Discoveries in 1904) offer an interesting complement to his autobiographical account. Kipling and Churchill witnessed the war in fairly similar conditions, observing the fighting at close range and enjoying friendly contact with British soldiers. …”
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 Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics in The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels : Domesticity, Wilderness and Masculine Fantasies of Animality by Pierre-Antoine Pellerin

“…Throughout his autobiographical cycle of fourteen novels, Jack Kerouac tried to present his narrator and his protagonists as archetypes of American masculinity who fought against their perceived domestication in a society which they characterized as undergoing feminization. …”
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Intertexte et réécriture du Drame de l’Homme, de la Femme et de Dieu dans 'Partage de midi' de Paul Claudel by Samuel Bidaud

“… This article examines the way in which Paul Claudel, in Partage de midi [Break of Noon], actualizes and rewrites several founding texts whose themes echo those of his play – which represents nothing more than the Drama of Man, Woman and God, based on an autobiographical source, Claudel’s love for Rosalie Vetch. …”
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« This narrative is my written memory » : transcrire la mémoire dans David Copperfield de Charles Dickens by Céline Prest

“…Anticipating Marcel Proust’s autobiographical masterpiece, David is in search of lost time. …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

“…His work transcends traditional autobiographical frameworks by incorporating mythological and cultural elements, enriching the narrative with profound symbolism and emotional depth. …”
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