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67: Reading Life Writing

Cora Kaplan and Jenny Bourne Taylor (guest editors)

Editorial

new formations 67 Life writing now holds a ubiquitous place in contemporary culture rivalling, overlapping and problematising distinctions between the factual records of life history and its fictional counterparts. This special issue responds to the rise and rise of biography, autobiography and memoir in recent decades, a popular explosion which has extended across every segment of a thriving market. Five broad categories frame the issue: the process of recalling and writing the past; the relationship between autobiography and fiction, the ways in which representation negotiates trauma, how to write the autobiography of political movements, and finally the way in which biography as a non theoretical form sets a paradigm for understanding of its own.

Contributors: Jérôme Hansen, Margaretta Jolly, Esther Leslie, Alison Light, Roger Luckhurst, Jane Mansfield, Ray Monk, Griselda Pollock, Claudine Raynaud, Martin Ryle, Lynne Segal, Alan Sinfield, Carolyn Steedman, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Gillian Swanson, Geoffrey Wall

Cover Image: Charlotte Salomon Life? or Theatre?, 1941-42, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. JHM 4288. Reproduced Courtesy of the Charlotte Salomon Foundation, Amsterdam.

Contents

Notes on contributors

Cora Kaplan and Jenny Bourne Taylor
Editorial


Alison Light A Child’s Sense of the Past

Carolyn Steedman On Not Writing Biography

Margaretta Jolly On Burning, Saving and Stealing Letters

Martin Ryle John Mcgahern: Memory, Autobiography, Fiction, History

Claudine Raynaud ‘Flesh and Blood’: Autobiographical ‘Material’ between Fiction and Non-fiction

Griselda Pollock The missing photograph: Charlotte Salomon Life? Or Theatre? as the Encounter with Maternal Loss

Lyndsey Stonebridge Hannah Arendt’s Testimony: Judging in a Lawless World

Roger Luckhurst Reflections on Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking

Geoffrey Wall Talk About the Party: Conversations with the SWP

Alan Sinfield Queerstories in Brighton

Lynne Segal Who do you think you are? Feminist Memoir Writing

Ray Monk Biography and Theory Reconsidered: Second Wittgensteinian Thoughts

REVIEWS
Gillian Swanson The Archive and the Detail

Esther Leslie Art’s Labour

BOOKNOTES
Jane Mansfield, Jérôme Hansen

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