Life Writing

Papers
(The TQCC of Life Writing is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Illnesses of Illusion and Disillusionment: From Euphoria to Aporia14
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness7
Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary6
Individualism, Collectivism, and Identity Politics in Palestinian Life Writing5
Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel5
My Mothers, My Others: A Conversation about a Hot Potato5
Glamorous Healing and ‘Rebellious Hope’: Tracing Grief in Transmedial Cancer Life Writing4
Trans/national(ism) in Chinese Trans Memoir: Jin Xing’s Shanghai Tango and Lei Ming’s Life Beyond My Body4
Duping Someone Else’s Body: Life Story of a Body Double4
I Give Birth / I Lay Bare / I Dissolve: Experiments in Narrating Self-Loss in Recent Dutch-Language Birth Literature4
Sickness of Separation: Reflections on Expatriation, Repatriation, and Motherhood4
From the Inside: Indigenous-Settler Reflections on the Family uses of the Thomas Dick ‘Birrpai’ Photographic Collection 1910–19204
Duty to Presence4
Writing the Hearing Line: Telling Family Stories of Deafness3
Autobiography as Archival Act: Reckoning with Personal and Political Pasts in They Called You Dambudzo and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness3
Doctor Who? Reflecting Upon Regenerations of Educational Identity Utilising Autoethnography and the Method of Currere3
Interrogating the Ethics and Intentions of Family Life Writing Relating to the Holocaust3
Mapping Madness: A Reading of Figurative Language in Jay Griffiths’s Tristimania and Mike Barnes’s The Lily Pond3
The Protocols of Dependency in Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)3
Community, Self and Dependency: Enslaved Voices in Moravian Lebensläufe (1747–1820)2
Becoming Simple and Honest: Nietzsche’s Practice of Spontaneous Life Writing2
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women2
On the Memory of Birds: A Meditation on Memory and Mourning AIDS Deaths in South Africa2
The Myth of ‘Wound’ Writing: The Multiple Surfaces of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow2
My Family History: the Past and the Present2
Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality and Social Justice Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality and Social Justice 2
Pulling out the Most Colourful Threads: Revealing and Weaving Positionality into Collaborative Life Writing2
The Museum of Failure2
Wilhelm Joest, Early German Ethnography and Contemporary Approaches to Writing the Life of an Imperial Actor: An Interview with Wilhelm Joest’s Biographer Anne Haeming2
Preserving Personhood: Resisting Objectification While Dying and Managing the Ethics of Life Online After Death2
No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’: The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing2
Ghost Plants: The Possibilities of Botanical Ecobiography2
The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry1
Inhospitable Conditions: Hospitality, Kinship and Complaint in Maureen Freely's Angry in Piraeus and Mireille Gansel's Translation as Transhumance 1
Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives1
Co-writing, Cross-genesis, and Authorial Self-Fashioning in the Diaries of Catherine Pozzi and Paul Valéry1
‘From Impasse to Development’: Life Writing as a Reparation in Yang Benfen's I am Rich in Fragrance1
(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency: An Introduction1
‘Honesty of that Order Threatens Order’: The Autofiction of Chris Kraus, Annie Ernaux, and Sophie Calle1
The Objects of Family History: Eliza Bennett's Straw Wedding Bonnet1
Coercive Control in Queer Relationships: Reframing Gender and Violence in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House1
The Politics of Shame in Musa Okwonga’s One of Them: An Eton College Memoir1
‘I Hope You and Your Loved Ones Remain Safe’: Dispatch from a Teacher-Scholar-Life Writer in Wartime1
Traversing the (In)Visible Territory of Schizophrenia in HOAX Psychosis Blues : An Intersection of Life Writing and Graphic Medicine in Comics1
Cries of ‘Fire!’: Narrating Deaths Across Borders in Tibetan Testimony1
‘I’ve Just Always Hated It When Anyone Suffers Alone’: Neoliberal Exhaustion and Regenerative Form in Anne Boyer’s The Undying1
Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography1
Technologies of Automathographies: Mary Somerville and the Republic of Mathematics1
Discerning the Autobiographical in English Court of Chancery Town Depositions1
Memoir and the Aesthetics of Employability in Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius1
Torn Bodies: Inner Conflicts of Surviving Composers1
I Want to Become: My (Own) Reference List1
True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays1
Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis1
Fictional Girlhood as Life Writing: Happiness, Hoax, and Autobiographical Displacement in Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose1
Writing Disability and Breaking Language: A Collaborative Essay1
Narrating the Breakthrough: Spiritual Awakening, Mental Health and the Struggle for Meaning in New Age Memoirs1
Unspoken: Experimental Life Writing and Child Narration1
‘I Shall Know It Well Enough When I Feel It’: Sensing the Moment in Montaigne, Woolf and Borges1
Enduring Places and Excavating Memories: Biographical Narratives of Delhi in Malvika Singh’s Perpetual City (2013)1
How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying , by Leslie Swartz, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 20211
Handling Hazardous Biographical Materials: Dealing with Questionable Character Traits through Poetic Biography1
Leo Ferrero and the Diary Dilemma1
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