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While aging and the life-course appear to be normalized processes, the complex construction of age at the intersection of biology, society, and culture remains opaque. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria, Julia Velten analyzes the way in which these people experience age(ing) and shows how these experiences can contribute to our understanding of age. Situated at the intersection of aging studies and medical humanities, the study explores what extraordinary age(ing) can tell us about aging processes in general.

Aging. --- Aging Studies. --- American Studies. --- Body. --- Centenarians. --- Cultural Studies. --- Illness Narratives. --- Life Writing. --- Literature. --- Medicine. --- Progeria.

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This is a highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. It provides a new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period.

Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Social conditions --- Isham, Elizabeth, --- Autobiography. --- Elizabeth Isham. --- Family History. --- Gender. --- Life-Writing. --- Patriarchy. --- Piety. --- Reading. --- Singlehood.

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Be resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need to be resilient? Hamideh Mahdiani presents answers to this question by challenging a reductionistic understanding of resilience from single disciplinary perspectives; by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept; and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience. In so doing, through a multidisciplinary frame of reference, the book works with various examples from life writing and life sciences, and testifies to the focal role of narrative studies in resilience research.

Literary form. --- Personality in literature. --- Resilience (Personality trait) --- American Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Human Resilience. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Writing. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Society.

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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offers fresh perspectives on many of the prominent authors in the discussion, draws them into a dialogue with autofictional practice from across the globe, and brings into view texts, forms, and media that have not traditionally been considered for their autofictional dimensions. The book, in sum, expands the parameters of research on autofiction to date to allow new voices and viewpoints to emerge.

Literature: history & criticism --- Literary theory --- Literature & literary studies --- Historiography --- Autofiction --- Autobiography --- Life writing --- Comparative literature --- World literature --- Narrative theory --- Biography --- Memoir --- Identity studies --- Postcolonialism --- Travel writing --- Open Access --- Autobiographical fiction --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy.

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"When over 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, youth, and race. In Witnessing Girlhood, Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall argue that they also joined a long tradition of autobiographical writing lead by women of color in which adults use the figure and narrative of child witness to expose harm and seek justice. Witnessing Girlhood charts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response. Drawing on a deep and diverse archive of self-representational forms-slave narratives, testimonio, memoir, comics, and picture books- Gilmore and Marshall attend to how authors return to a narrative of traumatized and silenced girlhood and the figure of the child witness in order to offer public testimony. Emerging within these accounts are key scenes and figures that link a range of texts and forms from the mid nineteenth century to the contemporary period. Gilmore and Marshall offer a genealogy of the reverberations across timelines, self-representational acts, and jurisdictions of the child witness in life writing. Reconstructing these historical and theoretical trajectories restores an intersectional testimonial history of writing by women of color about sexual and racist violence to the center of life writing, and, in so doing, furthers our capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness"--

Autobiographies --- Biography as a literary form. --- Child witnesses. --- Girls --- Minority women --- Women authors. --- Social conditions. --- Biography. --- Life Writing. --- child activist. --- childhood. --- comics. --- feminist studies. --- graphic narrative. --- picture books. --- sexual violence. --- testimony. --- trans childhood. --- trauma. --- witness literature.