Essays in Life Writing

Life Narrative is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field that explores diverse styles of personal and auto/biographical narration, subjectivity, and ethics in acts of self-representation. This book showcases a unique form of scholarship that combines creative and critical practices, engaging academics from various disciplinary backgrounds to address foundational and emerging issues in identity, experience, and subjectivity. The essay is a sympathetic mode for this scholarship, allowing for a flexible, hybrid critical and creative approach.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking book presents a novel and innovative approach to contemporary life narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field that revolves around the exploration of diverse styles of personal and auto/biographical narration, as well as the consideration of subjectivity and ethics in acts of self-representation. The essay emerges as a highly sympathetic mode for such scholarship, capable of responding to a wide range of methods, genres, and concepts, thereby enabling a flexible and hybrid critical and creative approach.

Many of the essays featured in this volume are authored by the creators of creative works of life writing, who use their work as a platform for critical reflection on disciplinary issues related to practice, ethics, audience, or genre. In contrast, other chapters showcase academics from various disciplinary backgrounds engaging in creative critical self-reflection, employing cultural analysis, ethnography, or embodied scholarship to address foundational and emerging issues and concepts concerning identity, experience, or subjectivity.

Essays in Life Writing establishes the essay as a unique intersection of creative and critical practice, accessible to scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds who publish peer-reviewed scholarly work. It also represents a form of scholarship that is making significant contributions to the growth and development of new knowledge in the field of Life Narrative.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal "Life Writing."

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032107424