1st Edition
Amsterdam Diaries, Life Writing and Identity Urban Lives
01. Introduction: Amsterdam in Diaries and Life Writing
Marleen Rensen and Leonieke Vermeer
Coming of Age
02. Her Visual Diary: How Anne Frank’s Picture Walls Evoke the War Lives of Other Women from Amsterdam
Diederik Oostdijk
03. Coming of Age in Amsterdam: From Els Eilers to Els Borst
Nele Beyens
04. Surinamese Diaspora and Belonging in Amsterdam: Childhood Memories of Ruud Beeldsnijder
David Grantsaan
Belonging
05. Jane Hoyake’s Amsterdam Diaries: Life in a City under Siege
Polly North
06. Roaming Amsterdam in Search of Stability: Postwar Arrivals from Indonesia Represented in Diaries
Eveline Buchheim and Ernestine Hoegen
07. Art, Love, Freedom: The Amsterdam Diaries of Işık Tüzüner
Irem Burcu Özkan Hoeijmakers and Laura van Hasselt
Routes and Routines
08. Fetching Dogs from Depositions: Examining Canine Agency in Early Modern Conflict Stories
Daan Jansen
09. The Amsterdam Diaries of Netje Asser and Hanna da Costa-Belmonte
Peter Buijs
10. Clearing the Deck: The Diaries of Skipper Adriaan Doorneveld
Laura van Hasselt
Digital lives
11. Diaries, Amsterdam and the Post-digital
Julie Rak
12. Mapping Urban Spaces Through Personal Stories: Story Maps and Deep Maps of Amsterdam
Helga Lenart-Cheng
13. Mapping Lives: The Amsterdam Diaries Time Machine
Leon van Wissen, Janna Aerts, Boudewijn Koopmans and Ingeborg Verheul
Creative Section
14. Part 1. The Many Lives of an Amsterdam Bicycle; Part 2. Reflection: Life Writing and Creative Writing
Pip Weytingh
15. The Mega-Mosaics of Fabrice Hünd
Cornelia Doornekamp
16. Exploring Urban Lives of Amsterdam through Mezrab: Empowerment, Emplacement, and Community Building via Storytelling
Ceren Gülbudak
17. Amsterdam through a (Trans)national Gaze: A Conversation with Life Writing Author Alejandra Ortiz
María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto
18. Archives and Other Stories of the Self or the Importance of Being Earnest
Edy Seriese
Biography
Marleen Rensen is a senior lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in literary engagement and life writing and has a particular interest in the lives of French and German artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
