a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2 (2022)

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Comic Lives

Introduction

Introduction
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue: Comedy and Life Narratives
Laurie McNeill & John David Zuern
Pages: 225-242
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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Essays

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Generous Laughs: The Comedic Plentitude of Maria Bamford
Shannon Herbert
Pages: 243-261
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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Confronting Apartheid’s Revenants: Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and/as Traumedy
Nick Mdika Tembo
Pages: 263-283
Published online: 26 Oct 2022
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Interview

No Joke, This Actually Happened: A Not Unfunny Interview with Danielle Seid
Danielle Seid
Pages: 285-298
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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Essays

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Okay to Laugh? Trauma, Memoir, and Teaching the Podcast Mum Says My Memoir Is a Lie
Kylie Cardell & Kate Douglas
Pages: 299-315
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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Getting the Joke: Self -Deprecating Humor in Anh Do’s The Happiest Refugee
Jacqui Dickin
Pages: 317-334
Published online: 02 Nov 2022
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Consequences of Laughter: Reflections on Performing Comedic Self-Deprecation and Reacting to Deprecation in General
Su Heng (Michael) Yi
Pages: 335-347
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read, BARBARA LOUNSBERRY, University Press of Florida
Rebecca Hogan
Pages: 349-352
Published online: 18 Feb 2022
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Rev. of Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography
PAUL JOHN EAKIN, Routledge, 2020, 174 pp., (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-3674-3910-1
Alfred Hornung
Pages: 353-356
Published online: 05 Jul 2021
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Rev. of The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures
G. THOMAS COUSER, Routledge, 2021, 206 pp., $160 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-3676-2078-3
Tom Smith
Pages: 357-361
Published online: 16 Feb 2022
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Rev. of Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing
LEIGH GILMORE & ELIZABETH MARSHALL, Fordham University Press, 2019, 160 pp., $25.00 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-8232-8548-8
Emma Maguire
Pages: 362-367
Published online: 07 Oct 2021
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Rev. of Americanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator
LISA ORTIZ-VILARELLE, Routledge, New York 2021, 246 pp., $136 (Hardback) $48.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-89347-7
Kimberly A. Nance
Pages: 367-370
Published online: 26 Oct 2022
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Notes on Contributors
Pages: 371-373
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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