Nelson Mandela était-il communiste ? by Chloé Maurel

“…How does he position himself in relation to communism in his autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom and in his pleadings during his trial? …”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…The essay elucidates the absent, ghost-like father-surrogate whose ‘half-hostile’ attitude leads to the tragic death or suffering of a blameless son, thereby providing the intersection of autobiography and Gothic literary tradition in these texts.…”
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“Mes dernières volontés”: Testaments to the Life of Marie Couvent, a Former Slave in New Orleans by Elizabeth C. Neidenbach

“…As catalogs of material accumulation, acts of autobiography, and maps of social networks these wills suggest the ways Couvent and other former slaves created identities as free people through property ownership and personal relationships.…”
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A Life Lived in Class by Diane Reay

“…Taking Bourdieu’s work to the limits is to engage with his research affectively as well as intellectually, to recognise our own social and academic positioning in the same powerful way he recognised and worked with his own autobiography (Bourdieu, 2007). It also requires the deconstruction and reconstruction of his concepts in relation to our own distinct experiences. …”
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Adventures With Mommsen by Brian Croke

“…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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Jardins imaginaires en partage by Cécile Regnault, Magali Paris

“…After a reminder of the theoretical framework of the environmental autobiography of Clare Cooper Marcus, the theses of Gaston Bachelard concerning topoanalysis and material imagination, and the theories of Gilbert Simondon on the transition from imagination to invention, we study the potential of imagination in designing for and with others. …”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…This paper reconsiders the narrator-narratee contract in Villette and shows how the narratee’s rational presence turns dialogism into an essential feature of this very unusual fictional autobiography; and contributes to the creation of a truly subversive and original piece of fiction. …”
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Gender Revolution in a Malthusian Utopia: Harriet Martineau’s world of Garveloch by Catherine Heyrendt-Sherman

“…The paper shows how Martineau set up a colourful Malthusian utopia that also challenged traditional gender roles. Her Autobiography suggests that she knowingly took a calculated risk, incurring the wrath of the Tory press. …”
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L’Orient-souvenir. Le surgissement du passé autobiographique dans le périple méditerranéen de Flaubert by Sarga Moussa

“…Leaving for the Orient, the young Flaubert was marked by Chateaubriand’s Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem, which steered the genre of travel writing towards autobiography. Here, we examine in his travel notes and correspondence three examples of a personal past emerging – first, a recent past, that of the first version of La Tentation de saint Antoine, which Flaubert is thinking back to during his encounter with a Coptic priest; then, a more distant past, that of his own youth resurfacing in the Kuchuk-Hanem episode by the Nile; finally, an imagined past, associated with a former life, reappearing like a ghost in the Greek village of Topolia. …”
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Force de la pudeur by Suzanne Fraysse

“…The first whipping scene in Douglass’s 1845 autobiography is studied as an example of the way the almost unspeakable sexual tyranny of the masters manages to be suggested in spite of strict rules of narrative propriety. …”
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Dr. Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927) and his nervous disease by A. Ulytė, E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė

“… Doctor Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927) was the patriarch of the Lithuanian nation, activist in the Lithuanian national revival, a physician, politician, scholar, and editor of the first Lithuanian-language newspaper Auszra. In his autobiography “The Chronicle of My Life and the History of a Nervous Disease” (1851–1922), Basanavičius not only presented the realities of social, political, cultural and academic life of the second half of the XIXth and the beginning of the XXth centuries in Lithuania and Europe but also depicted and analyzed symptoms of his nervous system disease. …”
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The Auto/biographical Nature of Ukrainian Women’s Literature on the War in Donbas by Anna Gaidash

“…The paper discusses the perspective of women, forms of undermining patriarchy, and rhetoric of “national autobiography” along with self-consciousness and self-reflexivity as markers of auto/biographical texts of Ukrainian women writers of the period in the selected texts.…”
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‘Tactile qualities’ by Andrew Eastman

“…In attempting to define what constitutes, for him, the modernity of the poem, William Carlos Williams wrote, in a well-known passage of his Autobiography (1951), “It is the making of that step, to come over into the tactile qualities, the words themselves beyond the mere thought expressed, that distinguishes the modern”. …”
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The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi by Jolien Paeleman

“…In his writings, among these A Scientific Autobiography, Rossi quotes from a collection of Benjamin’s memoirs: Berlin Childhood around 1900. …”
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Sickness, Hygienic Education and Village Practice: Tuberculosis in the Life of a Cobbler by Tuija Saarinen

“…The study draws on a variety of sources including the villagers’ interviews, Juho Mäkäräinen’s autobiography and letters. All sources deal with the writers’, their relatives’ or neighbours’ health. …”
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Ramiro Ledesma Ramos: años de literatura (1924-1930) by José-Carlos Mainer

“…His 1924 novel, "El sello de la muerte" ("The label of the death"), expressively dedicated to Unamuno, recreates the autobiography of a hard life's writer who, in the moment of accomplishing fame, commits suicide. …”
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An Autoethnography of an Islamic Teacher Education Programme by Ozan Angin

“…Autoethnography is a qualitative research method that combines autobiography and ethnography, emphasising personal experiences to explore cultural communities. …”
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Sous le règne de la terreur. La répression franquiste dans la bande dessinée espagnole. Le cas de Pablo Uriel et de Miguel Núñez by Benoît Mitaine

“…As for adaptations of memories, those of Miguel Núñez on the one hand (La revolución y el deseo, 2002) and Pablo Uriel on the other (No se fusila en domingo, 2005), these works will be studied from four different angles: history, autobiography, adaptation and aesthetics. Because these allo/auto/biographical cartoons are based on testimonies, because they are fictionalized pieces of history and because they contribute to the effort to recover the historical memory of the vanquished of the Spanish Civil War, It will be necessary first of all to recall the particular nature of the context of production of these texts in order to emphasize that in Spain the question of civil war remains a politically burning subject. …”
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"The City as Muse": A Context-Oriented Meta-Historical Reading of Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…In extension of this argument, this paper examines Toyin Falola's memoir, A Mouth Sweeter than Salt, as a genre of life writing and, especially, a form of autobiography, by showing how the setting, Ibadan, in its cultural and social formations, is depicted as having contributed to the self-awareness, self-image and identity of the subject, and how this reflection makes the nar­rative a meta-historical expression. …”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill both covered the Boer War as newspaper correspondents, working respectively for the Friend of the Free State and the Morning Post, and in later days, both authors looked back on the Boer War in their autobiographies. Kipling devoted a chapter of his autobiography Something of Myself to his experience of the war, while Churchill described his adventures, including his spectacular escape from a Boer prison in My Early Years. …”
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