a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3 (2017)

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Special Issue: Excavating Lives

Introduction

Introduction
Unearthing Objects, Discovering Stories, and Retelling Lives
Amy-Katerini Prodromou & Nicoletta Demetriou
Pages: 459-471
Published online: 11 Jul 2017
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The Process

Biography: The Echo of Those Who Have Lost Their Voices?
Fethiye Çetin
Pages: 473-478
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Essays

Essay
Radical Connections: Genealogy, Small Lives, Big Data
Julie Rak
Pages: 479-497
Published online: 05 Jul 2017
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Modern Memory-Making: Marie Kondo, Online Journaling, and the Excavation, Curation, and Control of Personal Digital Data
Kylie Cardell
Pages: 499-517
Published online: 05 Jul 2017
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Essay
Excavating the Gendered Self: Digital Affordance and Photo-Auto|Biography
Xin Huang
Pages: 519-539
Published online: 06 Jul 2017
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Essay
Excavating Childhood: Fairy Tales, Monsters, and Abuse Survival in Lynda Barry's What It Is
Olga Michael
Pages: 541-566
Published online: 12 Jul 2017
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Essay
Learning from Lilo Linke: Unearthing Her Authentic Autobiographies for an Emancipatory Pedagogy
Anita Oğurlu
Pages: 567-585
Published online: 05 Jul 2017
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Unearthing the Past: Bringing Ideological Indoctrination to Light in North Korean Girls’ Memoirs
Ana Belén Martínez García
Pages: 587-602
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Out of Life: Routes, Refuge, Rescue
Alfred Hornung
Pages: 603-623
Published online: 07 Jul 2017
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Forum: Refugee Narratives

Discussion
The Placing of Displaced Lives: Refugee Narratives
Clare Brant, Tobias Heinrich & Monica Soeting
Pages: 625-628
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Discussion
Among Drowned Lives: Digital Archives and Migrant Memories in the Age of Transmediality
Alice Cati & Maria Francesca Piredda
Pages: 628-637
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Discussion
Narratives In|With and Beyond Borders: Constraints and Potentialities of Biographical Research with Refugees
Elsa Lechner
Pages: 637-643
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Discussion
Fanciful Flights: Reimagining Refugee Narratives of Escape in Kao Kalia Yang's The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Aline Lo
Pages: 643-648
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Discussion
Refugee Comics and Migrant Topographies
Candida Rifkind
Pages: 648-654
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Discussion
Mapping Lives Across Borders
Helga Lenart-Cheng
Pages: 654-659
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Discussion
Autobiographical Docudrama as Testimony: Jonas Carpignano's Mediterranea
Eleanor Paynter
Pages: 659-666
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Discussion
The Ungrateful Child Refugee: The Anti-Sensationalism of Lore Segal's Other People's Houses
David Hadar
Pages: 667-672
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Discussion
RefugeeǀCitizen: Mediating Testimony through Image and Word in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Leigh Gilmore
Pages: 673-681
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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How Would You Teach It?

Article
Sites of Identity: Teaching Memoir and Place
Kathleen Boardman
Pages: 683-692
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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What's Next?

Article
History, Historians, and Autobiography Revisited
Jeremy D. Popkin
Pages: 693-698
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Rev. of Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir, by AMY-KATERINI PRODROMOU
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 166 pp., $90.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-137-48291-4
Janet Mason Ellerby
Pages: 699-702
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Book Review
Rev. of Telling the Flesh: Life Writing, Citizenship, and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot, by SONJA BOON
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015 324 pp., $37.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-7735-4639-4
Franziska Gygax
Pages: 702-705
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Book Review
Rev. of Fashioning the Elusive Self: Autobiography in China and the West by YING WANG & DAVID MONEY
Bringfield's Head Press, 2015 286 pp., ₤28.00 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-910-73001-0
Alfred Hornung
Pages: 706-708
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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Notes on Contributors

Notes On Contributors
Pages: 709-715
Published online: 31 Aug 2017
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