Moments of meaning: Identifying inner voices in the autobiographical texts of ‘Mark’.

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athena Androutsopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
Inner Voices

"Karel Fossey voor 't Assisenhof." Een autobiografische getuigenis over een activistenproces

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-179
Author(s):  
Luc Vandeweyer
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Report ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
Post War

De activist Karel Fossey schreef een gedetailleerd rapport over zijn twee dagen durend assisenproces. Deze bron is des te belangrijker omdat zijn en vele andere gerechtelijke dossiers  van activisten vernietigd werden in 1940. Bovendien blijkt hij nog heel wat meer autobiografische teksten te hebben geproduceerd. Die werpen niet alleen licht op zijn persoonlijke ervaringen maar ook op het leven in het Duitse kamp voor burgerlijke gevangenen in Holzminden tijdens de tweede helft van de oorlog en op het leven in de naoorlogse Belgische gevangenis.________"Karel Fossey appearing before the Assize Court." An autobiographical testimony about an activist trialThe activist Karel Fossey wrote a detailed report about his two-day trial before the Assize Court. This source is all the more important because his as well as many other legal dossiers of activists were destroyed in 1940. Moreover, it appears that he produced many other autobiographical texts. These not only illuminate his personal experiences, but also the life in the German camp for civil prisoners in Holzminden during the second half of the war as well as life in the post-war Belgian prison.

scholarly journals Agency and Analogy in African History: the Contribution of Extra-Mural Studies in Ghana

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 273-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
African History ◽  
World War ◽  
Significant Extent ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Second World

As the pioneering generation of postwar British academics retired, some produced autobiographical texts which revealed the personal circumstances and intellectual influences that brought them to the study of Africa. Edited volumes have also provided broader reflections on the academic disciplines, methodologies, and institutions through which these scholars engaged with the continent. In one such text, Christopher Clapham and Richard Hodder-Williams noted the special relationship between extramural studies (also known as university adult education) and the academic study of Africa's mass nationalist movements:The impetus for this study came to a remarkable degree from a tiny group of men and women who pioneered university extra-mural studies in the Gold Coast immediately after the [Second World War], and to a significant extent established the parameters for subsequent study of the subject [African politics]. Gathered together under the aegis of Thomas Hodgkin […], they were led by David Kimble […], and included among the tutors Dennis Austin, Lalage Bown and Bill Tordoff, all of whom were to play a major role in African studies in the United Kingdom over the next forty years.

scholarly journals Home and school literacy practices in Africa: listening to inner voices

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Marriote Ngwaru ◽  
Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Home And School ◽  
Inner Voices

scholarly journals Autobiographisches Schreiben in Alfred Anderschs Prosa der 50er Jahre

2017 ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Joanna Jabłkowska
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Alfred Andersch

Alfred Andersch´s autobiographical texts from the 1950s have been heavily criticized in recent literature on the topic. W.G. Sebald´s essay about Andersch was of crucial importance. The details of Andersch´s stay in the Dachau concentration camp as well as the writer´s motivation to desert at the end of the war were questioned. The article aims at a new reading of Andersch´s autobiographical texts with regard to their credibility. It compares the early short story Flucht in Eturien with the autobiography Die Kirschen der Freiheit and a few less known texts. The analysis leads to the conclusion that Andersch “re-wrote” his biography as a creation that fulfils unconscious wishes of a whole generation. His intention was to adapt the image of decent young men of antifascist beliefs whose only guilt was the loyalty to their comrades.

scholarly journals A DIDACTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE FALSE TREATY OF MANIPULATION – WRITTEN BY ANA BLANDIANA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 311-317
Author(s):  
Florina Irina Dima
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Autobiographical Texts

The present paper aims to underline the important role of introducing contemporary reading of autobiographical texts in high-school literature classes in Romania. It mentions the concepts of Shah Saria, Debra Edwards, and Linda Andersen, and the definitions of autobiography by Philippe Lejeune, Isabel Duran, and Karl Weintraub. For demonstration, it examines the text of the Romanian writer Ana Blandiana (a pseudonym of Otilia Valeria Coman), namely the False Treaty of Manipulation, published in 2013. The didactic generosity of this book is demonstrated with mention of the thematic stratification and uniqueness of the text, and by discussing the textual reference to the Romanian contemporary history, the connections between topics within the book, and how these might serve the interest and preparedness of teenagers for their adult life. The didactic approach of the book content involves extra-, inter-, and across-textual questions, as well as detailed passages, themes, and secondary themes relevant to the study of autobiography.

scholarly journals Marie de l’Incarnation d’après Jean-Daniel Lafond : l’amour d’une sainte contre la barbarie actuelle

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Amandine Bonesso
Keyword(s):  
Film Maker ◽  
The Future ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
Biographical Tradition

Abstract The contribution examines the documentary Folle de Dieu (2008) and the play Marie de l'Incarnation ou La déraison d'amour (2009), Jean-Daniel Lafond’s adaptations of Marie de l’Incarnation’s (1599-1672) autobiographical texts. The study demonstrates that the two works, the last in a long biographical tradition, construe the nun’s life as a humanitarian model through the theme of love. In this manner, the film-maker encourages the current society not to give way to the bellicose violence of the last century and to rethink the future as a possible happiness.

scholarly journals Contingency as Medium in Gertrude Stein

2019 ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Christine Savinel
Keyword(s):  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The Continuum

Gertrude Stein questions the event as an external and contingent accident, to be at least subsumed within the continuum of thinking —the untimely flux of interiormeditation and creation. Throughout her prolific production, one of Stein’s majorattempts was to do away with the event in literature, to dispense with it, to play against it. Stein pointedly selected as her topic the contingency of life within historical time, in her several autobiographical texts from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932) to Wars I Have Seen (1944). Wars I Have Seen proves to be a singular work which helps us realise the process through which Stein resists historical contingency. As this essay argues, Wars I Have Seen gives us a remarkable vision of Stein trying to resist the pressure of History, and a vision of literature trying to hold at bay the contingency of events.

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