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GS Life Writing

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  • "Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence" by Seo-Young Chu

    Author(s):
    Seo-Young Chu (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    English Literature, GS Life Writing, Poetics and Poetry
    Subject(s):
    Rape, Rape culture, Sexual abuse victims, Feminism, Stanford University, MeToo movement, Sexual harassment, Universities and colleges, Epistolary fiction, English, Psychic trauma
    Item Type:
    Newspaper article
    Tag(s):
    Justice, social justice, anaphora, epistolary, open letter, genre, anger, Feminism, Asian American Literature, cptsd

  • Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism

    Author(s):
    Seo-Young Chu (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing
    Subject(s):
    Creative nonfiction, Creative writing, Capitalism, Mental illness in literature, Ecocriticism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    speculative, Experimental writing, autotheory, Anti-capitalism, mental illness, Capitalist culture

  • The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival

    Author(s):
    Lee Skallerup Bessette (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, LLC Francophone
    Subject(s):
    Personal narratives, Critical pedagogy, Women's studies, Women--Sexual behavior, Teaching, Technology
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Rape Culture, rape, survival, Life writing, Women's gender, and sexuality studies

  • Contingency, Staff, Anxious Pedagogy — and Love

    Author(s):
    Lee Skallerup Bessette (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Alt-Academics, GS Life Writing, Hybrid Pedagogy
    Subject(s):
    Teaching, Critical pedagogy, Graduate students--Employment, Career changes, Affect (Psychology), Casual labor
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Alt-Ac, Affect, Contingent labor

  • A Corrupt Medium: Stephen Burroughs and the Bridgehampton, New York, Library

    Author(s):
    Susanna Margaret Ashton (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing
    Subject(s):
    Libraries, History, American literature--Colonial period, Autobiography, Books
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Criminal Narratives, Rogue Narrative, Library history, Early American literature, Book history

  • A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE

    Author(s):
    George Prokhorov (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS Medieval, GS Life Writing, GS Nonfiction Prose, GS Travel Writing, LLC Russian and Eurasian
    Subject(s):
    Seventeenth century, Europe, Narration (Rhetoric), Travel
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    17th Century, diplomacy, narrative theory, Non-fiction, Travel Writing, 17th century, Narrativity, Russia

  • Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma

    Author(s):
    Lee Skallerup Bessette (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, LLC Canadian, LLC Francophone, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, Postcolonial Literature
    Subject(s):
    French-Canadian literature
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    French Canadian literature, French Creole

  • How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation

    Author(s):
    Lee Skallerup Bessette (see profile)
    Date:
    2005
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, LLC Canadian, LLC Francophone, Postcolonial Literature, TC Translation Studies
    Subject(s):
    French-Canadian literature, Translating and interpreting
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    French Canadian literature, French Creole, Postcolonial literature, Translation, Translation studies

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood

    Author(s):
    Stephanie Butler (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    2017 MLA Convention, GS Life Writing, TC Age Studies, TC Disability Studies, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
    Subject(s):
    Culture--Study and teaching, Ethics, French literature, Literature--Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    2017 MLA Presidential Theme, disability studies, ethics, medical humanities, memoir, mla17, Cultural studies, Literature and philosophy

  • “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project

    Author(s):
    Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, LLC African American, LLC Francophone, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English
    Subject(s):
    African Americans--Social life and customs, American literature--African American authors, American literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    abolition, archives, comparative literature, slavery, African American culture, African American literature, French Creole

  • 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War

    Author(s):
    Subarno Chattarji (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    American literature
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    20th Century Literature, War, War literature

  • Introduction to Autobiography syllabus (online course)

    Author(s):
    Stacey Lee Donohue (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Literature--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    OEW2017, Teaching of literature

  • bringing the war back home (to women)

    Author(s):
    Julian Grajewski (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, GS Poetry and Poetics, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Sexuality Studies
    Subject(s):
    History, Modern, Literature, Modern, Campaign literature, Vietnamese language
    Item Type:
    Poetry
    Tag(s):
    Womens History Month, Modern history, Modern literature, Political literature, War literature

  • The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer

    Author(s):
    Eileen McGinnis (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    GS Comics and Graphic Narratives, GS Life Writing, GS Speculative Fiction
    Subject(s):
    Literature and science
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    anachronism, biography, comics, mla16, Session 425

  • "Write YOUR Story" children's writing workshop in the news!

    Author(s):
    Julia V. Douthwaite (see profile) , Margaret Fosmoe
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, HEP Teaching as a Profession, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Children's literature
    Item Type:
    Interview
    Tag(s):
    youth culture, K16, creativity, altered books

  • Bits of Autobiography: Radical Deindividualization and Everydayness

    Author(s):
    James E. Dobson (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Psychology and literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    autobiography, phenomenology, individuality, Ambrose Bierce, Literature and psychology

  • Thugs and Bandits: Life and Law in Colonial and Epicolonial India

    Author(s):
    Subramanian Shankar (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    india, phoolan devi, thuggee

  • Reading Affect in Literary Studies

    Author(s):
    Kathleen Woodward (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    GS Life Writing, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, TM Literary Criticism, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Culture--Study and teaching, Literature--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    reading, Cultural studies, Literary theory, Teaching of literature

  • "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism"

    Author(s):
    Alan Lopez (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Life Writing, LLC African American, TC Anthropology and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    British literature, Comparative literature, Culture--Study and teaching, Language and languages, Second language acquisition
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    biography, cultural displacement, fanon, modernism, rousseau, Cultural studies, Language

  • "Emerson's Bayonet"

    Author(s):
    Alan Lopez (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    CLCS 18th-Century, GS Life Writing, HEP Teaching as a Profession, LLC 18th-Century French, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC Early American, LSL Language and Society, TC Digital Humanities, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Education, Higher, American literature, British literature, Comparative literature, Culture--Study and teaching, English literature, Language and languages, Literature--Philosophy, Philosophy, Campaign literature, Rhetoric, Literature--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    american literature, citizenship, emerson, empathy, ethics, formalism, hobbes, humanism, human rights, intellectual history, law and literature, literary history, literature and philosophy, narrative theory, property rights, pufendorf, reading, rights, rousseau, social contract, teaching, Academe, Cultural studies, Language, Literary theory, Literature and philosophy, Political literature, Teaching of literature

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