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Remembering Contentious Lives (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
by: Duygu Erbil (Editor), Ann Rigney (Editor), Clara Vlessing (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2025-01-02
Language: English
Print Length: 226 pages
ISBN-10: 3031734491
ISBN-13: 9783031734496
Book Description
This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, this volume takes life-writing as a new point of observation on the entanglement between memory and activism.This is an open access book.
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This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, this volume takes life-writing as a new point of observation on the entanglement between memory and activism.This is an open access book.
