Tours de Babel et lettres de feu : motifs bibliques dans le Berlin de Vladimir Nabokov by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…This article adopts a different stance, focusing on two Old Testament motifs that appear in Nabokov’s last Russian novel (The Gift) and in his autobiography, namely the Tower of Babel and the letters of fire from the book of Daniel. …”
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Being ‘excluded from the world of sound’: Deafness, Invalidism and Resilience in Harriet Martineau’s Writings (1834–1855) by Manuela D’Amore

“…Blending different genres and text forms, Letter to the Deaf (1834), the journal article ‘Deaf Mutes’ (1854) and her two-volume Autobiography (1855–1877) are clear on her determination to use her most painful experiences to promote social change. …”
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Langston Hughes chez Pierre Seghers : récit d’un engagement poétique by Annick Ettlin

“…It examines the choices and circumstances leading to the publication of several of Hughes’s works: his first autobiography, a volume of poetry (translated by François Dodat in 1955), a book in the series “Poètes d’aujourd’hui” and two anthologies in 1962 and 1966. …”
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The Metempiricism of Margins: Professor Anthony Aṣiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge by Toyin Falola

“…Contrary to the man-confining adage of “cut your coat according to your cloth/size,” the autobiography of Professor Aṣiwaju has exemplified that the Supreme God cuts and designs coat without the delimitations or regard of one’s size or cloth. …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…Crapalachia is a threnody for a wounded region that complicates imagined hierarchies of center and periphery and blends the worlds of fact and fiction as well as tragedy and comedy. The semi-autobiography mines so deeply for privation that, at its close, it lays bare some of the most hopeful principles of American transcendentalism. …”
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Ayuka’s Title of Daichin Khan: Examining Tibetan-Language Sources by Bembya L. Mitruev

“…The article examines materials contained in various Tibetan-language texts, such as the autobiography of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama and that composed by Desi Sangye Gyatso, biography of Fifth Panchen Lama, etc. …”
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H. G. Wells’s and E. M. Forster’s Transformative Arts: Theoretical Divergences and Formal Connections by Laurent Mellet

“…Wells’s books sometimes display an interrogation of the novel form in its interconnections with other prose genres (journalism, pamphlet, autobiography), while Forster’s novels often resort to liberal-humanist credos and other democratic stances which read as a plea for another society. …”
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From sick old man to mythical hero by Sandra Pitcher, Tammy Frankland, Nicola Jones

“… In his autobiography, Conversations with Myself, Mandela spoke about his concern that the world had a false image of him as a saint and semi-god (Mandela, 2012). …”
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„Wie die Geschichtsschreiber der Welt die Geschichte des Felsens schreiben“. Die zerschlagene Gedächtnislandschaft in der „Saison in den Alpen“ von Mieczysław Jastrun by Elżbieta Dutka

“…Numerous tropes and figures (e.g. the metaphors “chronicles of the earth” and “a book bound with stone snaps” referring to the mountains) and allusions to Słowacki’s poem In Switzerland make the Alps in Jastrun’s poem not only a “place touched by autobiography” (per M. Czermińska), discovered during a short stay. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…When Ernest Gaines chooses a woman as the individual subject for collective memorialization and the ideal medium of racial memory in his 1971 novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, he participates in a significant but overlooked genre of black masculine discourse, the composition of black authorship as historical/national authority through the voice and viewpoint of a female protagonist. …”
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Flaubert et le récit autobiographique : Les Mémoires d’un fou by Claudine Gothot-Mersch

“…Cet article se propose d’explorer ce texte en détail, en cherchant à faire la part du réel et de la fiction, et en montrant chez le jeune auteur les ambiguïtés d’une démarche qui, sous couvert d’autobiographie, se confronte plutôt aux codes d’un genre littéraire, dans une perspective d’expérimentation.…”
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The Politics of Objects: Eliza Cook’s Biographies of Things by Fabienne Moine

“…While her poems often denounce the forces of oppression that threaten social peace and the daily life of simple people, her biographies or fictitious autobiographies of things about duly called ‘feminine’ artefacts support her protofeminist engagement while challenging the limits of the domestic sphere. …”
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Los Angeles, espace augmenté révélé par un genre littéraire : l’anthologie by Charles JOSEPH

“…Los Angeles has been a literary motif since its very creation and the city can be read in novels, autobiographies, journals, poems of chronicles written by authors just passing through, immigrants or natives of a place that rapidly became a culturally emblematic beacon. …”
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From natural threat to disaster: A historical construction of the earthquake and tsunami of 1960 in Saavedra by Cristián Inostroza-Matus, Francisco Molina-Camacho, Hugo Romero-Toledo

“…Through the revision of texts of explorers, military reports, maps, autobiographies, scientific research projects, site visits, and the support of system of geographic information, this article seeks to reconstruct the process of the conformation of territory in Saavedra, highlighting the direct relationship that exists between the invasion of the Mapuche territory Lafkenche by the Chilean State and the worst disaster in its history more than a decade later.…”
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Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal by Diane Drouin

“…However, although Loy’s poems may have been influenced by this American “renaissance of poetry,” her often overlooked prose autobiographies in prose – that she began in Paris in the 1920s and completed in New York in the 1940s – should be analyzed in the light of the Surrealist renewal of language. …”
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The Counter-Order of Simulacra: Alan Duff’s gut novel, Once Were Warriors by Christian Gutleben

“…Il s’avère ainsi plus proche ontologiquement d’une autobiographie fictionnelle ou d’une parabole politique que d’un recyclage palimpsestueux de textes antérieurs. …”
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Representation of forced migrants: a case study of the east bengali migrants to West Bengal by Subhasri Ghosh

“…Culling information from Government documents, autobiographies, oral interviews and memoirs, the paper will focus on how each perceived the other and whether more than half a century and subsequent generations later such perceptions have undergone any change.The representation of the ‘Bangals’, as the Bengali Hindus from East Pakistan are popularly referred to as by the ‘Ghatis’ (Bengali Hindus of West Bengal), in the latter’s psyche, too, is multi-faceted—sympathy towards the migrants, at being uprooted from their ancestral home, antagonism at being ‘the Government’s favored son’ in terms of job reservations and financial help which in turn fostered the feeling of ‘outsiders infringing on our rights, occupying our lands and making life miserable for us.’ …”
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Faire de la non-fiction une profession de foi litteraire et politique : fabrique d’une œuvre « braconne », construction d’une posture auctoriale et usages litteraires stratégiques... by Ізабель Шарпантьє

“…Du « je transpersonnel » de La Place (Gallimard, 1984) à « l’autobiographie collective » Les Années (Gallimard, 2008), en passant par ses « journaux extimes » qualifiés d’« ethnotextes », l’écrivaine a progressivement construit une posture auctoriale distinctive où elle se veut « ethnologue d’elle-même » et de la vie quotidienne « d’en bas », celle de son milieu social populaire d’origine, en quête constante de la forme « juste » pour de tels récits. …”
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L’École de journalisme d’Alger (1964-1990) : les défis d’une formation professionnelle by Chloé Nejma Rondeleux

“…Sources consisting primarily of writings, such as university works, autobiographies, academic articles, etc., left by the principal role-players of the École de journalisme (directors, lecturers and students), have been enriched by previously unpublished interviews and personal archives collected from the above-mentioned, making it possible to approach as closely as possible to the functioning of the institute.The article first recounts the context of birth and dwells on the initial project of the years 1964–1965. …”
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