From Performance to Participation: The Origins of the Fit Nation by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

“…Using popular press, institutional records, advice literature, advertisement, and memoir, this article explains how this was not always so. …”
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“To us the war is a spectacle”: Domestic Consumption of the Crimean War in Victorian Britain by Alison Fletcher

“…Following the war, Mary Seacole a colonial subject from Jamaica, published a memoir of her experiences nursing sick soldiers in the Crimea. …”
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FROM THE METAPHOR OF WATER TO CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN ENESCU, EMINESCU, BLAGA AND THE ROMANIAN SPIRITUALITY by Olguţa LUPU

“…Of all the primordial elements, the symbol of water marks Enescu’s entire creation, illustrating the complexity of the relationship between man and nature: from the serene and melancholic pages of his youth, that broach the romantic genre of character miniature (barcarola), to the works characterized by a nostalgic and introspective component with a touch of memoir (in Childhood Impressions or The Villageoise Suite), all the way to the tragedy in Vox Maris – whose similarities with Oedipus require further investigation. …”
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“We must dig our trenches, and win or die”: Voltairine de Cleyre’s Transnational Anarchism by Rita Filanti

“…In her practice as a teacher among immigrant workers in Philadelphia and Chicago, as translator from French and Yiddish, and editor of Alexander Berkman’s prison memoir, she rejected the identification of one nation with one language. …”
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"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…Toyin Faiola the author of A Mouth Sweeter than Salt has produced a highly engaging memoir. The text is set in Ibadan, Ode Aje and Ilorin. …”
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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

“…Following this, the analysis will focus on the memoir that Uriel and Núñez left us on the question of Franco's repression. …”
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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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Narraciones poscoloniales. La escritura autobiográfica de Edward Said y Stuart Hall by Damián Gálvez González

“…Haciendo uso de la crónica personal de Said (Out of Place: A Memoir), y del relato subjetivo póstumo de Hall (Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands), el trabajo examina el significado que tuvo la experiencia biográfica transcultural de ambos intelectuales en la construcción de un pensamiento y una práctica política que enfrentó decididamente las marcas del colonialismo. …”
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“In truth, I was really a pioneer”: Female Entrepreneurship and Selfhood Formation in Bethlehem's Diasporic Merchant Community, 1900–1940 by Eibhlin Priestley

“…Focusing on oral history interviews with Katrina Sa’ade and the memoir of Victoria Kattán de Hirmas, this study examines the outward expansion of Bethlehem’s merchant middle-class from the perspective of women whose lives were indelibly shaped by these ventures. …”
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Engaged by the Revolution: the Lepsis Chekist family in Vyatka (1919) by A. S. Pozdnyakova

“…Based on unpublished sources from the funds of the State Archive of the Kirov region and memoir journalism, the article analyzes a fragment of the life path of the spouses of security officers R. …”
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What Influences the Historical Memory of Modern Students? by N. D. Sorokina

“…It can be replaced by a mechanism for preserving memory, such as memoir literature of war participants, which is not yet popular among students. …”
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Yoruba Epistemology, Art, Language and the Universe of Meanings: A Meta-Analysis by Michael O. Afolayan

“…The paper reminds one of the title of the memoir of Ellen DeGeneres, the famous American comedian, titled Seriously . . . …”
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The Metempiricism of Margins: Professor Anthony Aṣiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge by Toyin Falola

“… Professor Anthony Aṣiwaju has written his memoir, Bridging Boundaries, to commemorate his 80th birthday, thus giving us a treasure to behold, a legacy to cherish, and a history to keep. …”
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La Fondation nationale cubano‑américaine. by Émilie Descout

“…Après avoir écrit un mémoire de maîtrise sur la Fondation Nationale Cubano-Américaine et un mémoire de DEA sur les relations entre le gouvernement américain, l’exil cubain et la dissidence interne cubaine, Émilie Descout prépare actuellement, sous la direction de Mme Divina Frau-Meigs, une thèse sur les groupes de l’exil cubain à Miami. …”
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„I Siegfried cítí zimu a vši…“ aneb Obrazy spojenců a nepřátel v paměti vojáků druhého čs. zahraničního odboje by Pavel Mücke

“…Inspired by concepts of Maurice Halbwachs (cadres de memoire) and Pierre Nora (lieux de memoire) and also basing on oral history metodology, he is consequently (re)constructing contours of ex-soldiers war and postwar memory. …”
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To Link Life Histories to Historical Narratives by Irène Dos Santos

“…Il s’agit d’éclairer les acteurs de ces processus et de montrer comment peuvent s’imbriquent, dans ce nouveau rapport politique au passé, mémoire de la dictature et mémoire de la décolonisation. …”
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«Kept to distribute 44 copies of proclamations...»: about the biography of Omsk revolutionary Nadezhda Terekhova (Belonogova) by M. M. Stelmak

“…The basis for the publication is a set of published and unpublished memories, memoirs and materials of the paperwork of the gendarmerie identified in the funds of the historical archive of the Omsk region. …”
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Kilka uwag o znajomości dzieła Jana Jakuba Rousseau „Emil, czyli o wychowaniu” w Polsce przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku by Dorota Żołądź-Strzelczyk

“…We can see traces of “Emil” both in the memoirs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as in novels. …”
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Usages politiques du passé à l’occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de la mort de Joseph Staline by Lisa Tanguay

“…Le passé soviétique serait notamment réactualisé puisqu’une mémoire directe et personnelle de Staline est improbable et que cette absence de mémoire empêcherait tout un pan du passé mythique d’être réintégré dans la mémoire collective russe. …”
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Quels usages de la bibliotheque au Maroc  by Anouk Cohen

“…Officine de l’âme et de l’esprit, la bibliothèque représente ce lieu où se forme un patrimoine, individuel ou collectif, et où s’élabore une construction, personnelle ou non, référant à une histoire, elle-même relative à une mémoire propre. Afin de cerner ce qu’il en est au Maroc, nous interrogerons, sous un angle ethnologique, le rapport des lecteurs à leur bibliothèque, qu’elle soit publique ou privée, afin non seulement de comprendre quels sont les livres appelés à constituer le patrimoine dont elle sera le dépositaire : à faire patrimoine, mais également cerner les représentations qui lui sont attachées, la mémoire à laquelle elle réfère, les usages qui en découlent, et le rôle qui lui est attribué. …”
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