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Publish with us Advanced search Conclusion Katrin Tiidenberg (Baltic Film, Media, Arts and …

Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we
do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but …

Online environments are rapidly changing our understanding of what it means to construct a
life story and what identity itself might come to mean in virtual worlds. This essay poses a …

As my co-editor Maria Takolander writes elsewhere in this collection,'Life writing has long
been theorised in terms of its limits'. Indeed, one might say that a concern with limits brought …

Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the
diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including …

For years now, a growing online subculture has been exchanging videos designed to
induce 'autonomous sensory meridian response'(ASMR), a mysterious, blissfully relaxing …

This critical introductory text explores the role of advertising in contemporary culture and its
connections to larger economic, social, and political forces. Written in an engaging and …

Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies;
as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history …

This essay reconsiders the importance of performativity to scholarship on life writing by
exploring the potential of Eve Sedgwick's concept of the periper-formative utterance for …

This entry develops a definition of literature as an identity technology by bringing together
theories of identity formation as a process of identification and introjection, with thinking …