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Introduction: Auto/Biography in Transit

2015; University of Hawaii Press; Volume: 38; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/bio.2015.0008

1529-1456

Jason Breiter, Orly Lael Netzer, Julie Rak, Lucinda A. Rasmussen,

Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis

The essays in this special issue engage with a range of issues relating to Auto/Biography in Transit, the title of the 2014 International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) conference held in Banff, from which the issue emerged. The essays have been divided into two areas of inquiry: Documents and Displacements. Those in the first section address the status of the document as a technology of the self, or think about how cultural producers document their lives. Essays in the second section explore critical approaches and texts that signify how both the study of life writing and its objects of inquiry are themselves in transit, and have the potential to change our ideas about the field itself.