1st Edition
Life Writing Outside the Lines Gender and Genre in the Americas
Preface – After Lives: A Reflection on the 2017 IABAA Conference
Ricia Anne Chansky and Eva C. Karpinski
Introduction – Finding Fragments: The Intersections of Gender and Genre in Life Narratives
Eva C. Karpinski and Ricia Anne Chansky
Reflections
1. Cultivating Gullibility
Marlene Kadar
2. Marlene Kadar interview with Sidonie Smith – May 15, 2017
Sidonie Smith
Forum: The Work of Marlene Kadar
3. The Work of Marlene Kadar
Eva C. Karpinski
4. Mar and Me: Following the Traces
Linda Warley
5. Marlene Kadar’s Life Writing: Feminist Theory Outside the Lines
Julie Rak
6. Working (with) History: Marlene Kadar and Louise DeSalvo
Julia A. Galbus
7. Escape from the Colonial Asylum
Patrick Taylor
8. Inside the Cover, Outside the Archive: Reading the Dispersal of Jane Rule’s Library and Modes of Female Sociability
Linda M. Morra
9. Maternal Stars of the Silent Screen: Gender, Genre, and Photoplay Magazine
Elizabeth Podnieks
10. Unlikely Documents, Unexpected Places: The Limits of Archive
Mark Celinscak
11. Frayed Edges: Selfies, Auschwitz, and a Blushing Emoticon
Rachel E. Dubrofsky
12. Kim Thúy’s Ru and the Art of the Anecdote
Helen M. Buss
13. Drawing a Narrative Landscape with Women Refugees
Ozlem Ezer
Essays
14. Translanguaging and Autobiogeography as Decolonial Strategies for Writing Life Narratives within Displacement
Manoela dos Anjos Afonso Rodrigues
15. Sick Women, Sad Girls, and Selfie Theory: Autotheory as Contemporary Feminist Practice
Lauren Fournier
16. Remembering Forgetting: Graphic Lives at the End of the Line
Kathleen Venema
17. Childhood Exile: Memories and Returns
Leonor Arfuch
18. Women Making Freedom: Locating Gender in Intra-Caribbean Migration from a Curaçaoan Perspective
Rose Mary Allen
The Process
19. Rejecting Objectivity: Reflections of a Black Feminist Researcher Interviewing Black Women
Keila D. Taylor
How Would You Teach It?
20. The Work of Teaching Women’s Auto|Bio Comics
Candida Rifkind
Biography
Eva C. Karpinski is an Associate Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation (2012), and co-editor of Trans/Acting Culture, Writing, and Memory (2013). She is currently working on a book project on multilingual life writing.
Ricia Anne Chansky is Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She is co-editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, editor of the Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series, and a Voice of Witness Fellow. She has recent and forthcoming publications on disaster studies, pedagogy, and contested identities.
