...The study of autobiography has been resurgent in recent decades, and the genre is often now discussed by historians, literary critics and others alongside biographies, memoirs, letters, diaries, and reminiscences – as well as works more conventionally considered ‘history’ or ‘fiction’ -- under...

...This chapter examines the autobiography and the forty-seven volume diary of Fathalla Barakat Pasha (d. 1933). It particularly focuses on his treatment of the ‘long 1890s’, stretching from the British Occupation in 1882 and the years directly preceding World War I. This period saw the abortion...

...The Arabic novel writes the history of the nation-state in the form of novelised autobiography, biography biographical dictionary of prophets, political leaders, heroes of Islam, and the common folk. As it does so, it confronts the Arab mythical past, unravels the mystique of its power and attempts...

...The book ends with a short examination of Stein’s construction of herself as author in relation to images of inclusion and exclusion in The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. The Coda argues that, in the Autobiography, Stein’s desire to control conceptions of her...

... Authorship Agency Autobiography The opening chapter of Japanese film star Takamine Hideko’s (1924– 2010) 1970s collection of autobiographical essays focuses on Shige, her aunt and foster mother. ¹ Suffering from brain damage following encephalitis, the elderly Shige must relearn to read...

... Khālid Idrīs Suhayl Dead Souls Farman Khamsat aswat al-Markab characterisation exile Iraqi society autobiography politics lyricism Ghā^ɔib was burning inside. I know that. Whenever I had the chance to meet him in Moscow, I’d say to him, ‘You’re amazing, Ghā^ɔib. You keep...

... centuries. Arab autobiography autobiography The Days al Ayyām Hussein García Márquez Gabriel Hussein Taha On Pre Islamic Poetry Fī al Shi‘r al Jāhilī Hussein Anglophone autobiography colonialism Confieso que he vivido Memorias Neruda fragmentation Franco Jean Francophone autobiography Iraq...

...This chapter looks at the effects of autobiographical production in other languages and translation on the globality of national literatures and world literary study. It examines current theorisations of world literature and considers Arab autobiography within new literary systems. distant reading...

..., sources, and affinities with other literatures. Taking a comparative approach, the book shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. It also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world...

...Through a comparison with Janet Frame’s Autobiography, from which it is adapted, this chapter analyses Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table as the first New Zealand film to present all three of the main maturational phases characteristic of the coming-of-age genre...

... Marxism Moretti Nanni politics La sconfitta 1973 confession divorce objectification Braidotti Rosi eroticism Heath Stephen sexual politics irony Kitch Sally L autobiography Booth Wayne counter cinema Halperin David Mazierska Ewa Rascaroli Laura Aristarco Guido capitalism...

...This chapter focuses on the film Gorky Trilogy, directed by Mark Donskoi and based on the autobiography of Maxim Gorky. It suggests that Gorky's creation of a biography of a certain Alyosha Peshkov who really existed, and Donskoi's creation of the film trilogy which transformed...

... Stein’s temporally warped account in The Autobiography of her first meeting with Van Vechten; examines her two word-portraits of him (“One Carl Van Vechten,” 1913, and “Van Or Twenty Years After,” 1923); and analyzes several of his photographs of her and the “Woojums” family of choice...

...The coda expands on the implications of the textual and visual artefacts of Stein’s masculine homosocial desires by cross-reading her ambivalent reflections on celebrity in Everybody’s Autobiography (1936) with her frequent appearances in the public consciousness from 2011 to 2012...

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... and by presenting his account of the founding of the republic in his autobiography and personal notes, known as ‘the anas’. Adams John American Revolution history Hume David republicanism DéMeunier Jean Nicolas Jefferson Thomas Short William Souleés François Ramsay David Virginia Gordon William Carey...

.... In his autobiography, Obama recorded his first impressions of Indonesia and recounts his childhood in Hawaii in terms of his search for identity. He also traces his roots to Africa. foreign policy Obama Barack campaign advertisements Clinton Hillary Islam Johnson Lyndon B Zakaria Fareed apartheid...

...As this autobiography has shown, Ibn Khaldun had an unusually individualistic character. Hence, it is ironic that Ibn Khaldun's view of history did not seem to allow much room for the agency of free will and determinism of the individual. For Ibn Khaldun, even the charisma of an individual leader...

... Nationalism Better Britain Working-Class Movements Nostalgia Autobiography Public Memory Private Memory Pioneer Narratives In May 1911, fifty years after Gabriel Read’s discovery of gold that sparked the Otago gold rushes, Gabriel’s Gully was once again teeming with life. A few days before...