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• Autobiographical Convergences: A Cultural Analysis of Books by Swedish Digital Media Influencers.

  Author:Gabriella NilssonFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20229,140 words Article 1390LSwedish digital media influencer Nathalie Danielsson, who daily shares her life narratives with over 2 million online followers, explains why she chose to publish her autobiographical book Jag, Nattid (I, Nattid). This...

• The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s): Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing.

  Author:Katrina PhillipsFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,300 words Article 1550LThe Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s): Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing Jens Temmen Universitatsverlag Winter,...

• Romanticism and the Letter.

  Author:Mary A. WatersFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,441 words Article 1640LRomanticism and the Letter Edited by Madeleine Callaghan and Anthony Howe Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xv + 272 pp. ISBN 9783030293093, $119.00 hardcover. According to editors Madeleine Callaghan and Anthony Howe,...

• Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory.

  Author:Julia WatsonFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,880 words Article 1370LCharlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory Griselda Pollock Yale University Press, 2018, 544 pp. ISBN 9780300100723, $60 hardcover. Eminent British art historian Griselda Pollock's study of Charlotte Salomons vast...

• Textile Auto/biography: Protest, Testimony, and Solidarity in the Chilean Arpillerista Movement.

  Author:Lisa Ortiz-VilarelleFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20226,934 words Article 1450LGeneral Augusto Pinochet installed himself as president of Chile in 1973 after leading a military coup to oust democratically elected President Salvador Allende. The security measures Pinochet installed to subdue...

• The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages.

  Author:Derrick HigginbothamFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,880 words Article 1670LThe Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages Karen A. Winstead Oxford UP, 2018, ix + 243 pp. ISBN 9780198707035, $61.00 hardcover; ISBN 9780198707042, $27.95 paperback. Karen A. Winstead's...

• Templates for Authorship: American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s.

  Author:Pamela L. CaughieFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,849 words Article 1690LTemplates for Authorship: American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s Windy Counsell Petrie University of Massachusetts Press, 2021, 240 pp. ISBN 9781625345516, $90.00 hardcover; ISBN 9781625345523, $28.95...

• EDITOR'S NOTE.

  Author:Craig HowesFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2022752 words Article 1420LFrom its first issue (Winter 1978), Biography has been a "forum" journal. Our founder, George Simson, always believed that you create and sustain a field or discipline by serving it. At first, that meant welcoming for...

• Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire, 1830-1940.

  Author:Shaswat PandaFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,438 words Article 1440LIndian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire, 1830-1940 Pramod K. Nayar Bloomsbury, 2020, 248 pp. ISBN 9789389000931, $115 hardcover. Travel narratives written during colonial rule have received considerable...

• Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.

  Author:Kate DrabinskiFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,810 words Article 1410LContemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity Jennifer Cooke Cambridge UP, 2020, viii + 226 pp. ISBN 9781108489911, $99.00 hardcover. Jennifer Cooke's Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity is...

• Screening Clara Schumann: Biomythography, Gender, and the Relational Biopic.

  Author:Julia NovakFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 202210,150 words Article 1600LClara Schumann, nee Wieck, is known today as one of the most distinguished concert pianists of European Romanticism, a major influence on the development of the nineteenth-century piano recital, and a renowned piano...

• Sports Journalism and Women Athletes: Coverage of Coming Out Stories.

  Author:Michael TsaiFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,043 words Article 1730LSports Journalism and Women Athletes: Coverage of Coming Out Stories William P. Cassidy Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, ix + 127 pp. ISBN 9783030305253, $59.99 hardcover. Building on his incisive study of how journalists...

• Identity Work, Sexuality, and the Reception of Testimony: On Identification with Anne Frank.

  Author:Hannah JakobsenFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20227,808 words Article 1640LA once-censored passage from Anne Frank's Diary has garnered increased attention in recent years. In the passage, Frank details her feelings about women's bodies and her friend Jacque: In online commentary about this...

• Prison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System.

  Author:D. Quentin MillerFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,767 words Article 1480LPrison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System Simon Rolston Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2021, ix+316 pp. ISBN 9781771125178, $34.99 paperback. Despite marked political and cultural...

• Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies.

  Author:Desiree HendersonFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,313 words Article 1610LResearch Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies Edited by Kate Douglas and Ashley Barnwell Routledge, 2019, xvii + 258 pp. ISBN 9780367255688, $170.00 hardcover; ISBN 9781032092119, $48.95 paperback....

• Americanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator.

  Author:Renata Lucena DalmasoFrom:Biography (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,409 words Article 1470LAmericanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Routledge, 2021, ix + 236 pp. ISBN 9780367893477, $170 hardcover; ISBN 9781032335919, $48.95 paperback. Lisa...