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Informationen zum Autor Paul Longley Arthur is a Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University! Australia. He has published widely in cultural and communication studies! biography! history and literature! and is the author of Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes! 1605-1837 (2010). Recent edited volumes include International Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Global Context (2013)! Framing Lives (2014)! and Migrant Nation: Australian Culture! Society and Identity (2018).Leena Kurvet-Käosaar is Associate Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Tartu! Estonia! as well as a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum and also the leader of the research group on migration and diaspora studies of the Center of Excellence of Estonian Studies at the Estonian Literary Museum. She has published widely in life-writing studies! specialising in particular on Post-Soviet life writing! personal narratives of Soviet deportations and the Gulag! and trauma studies. Zusammenfassung The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this collection. Throughout runs the framing theme of memory as the source of all intergenerational transmission of culture and history and the importance of the intimate and personal in that process of handing on. It was first published as a special issue of Life Writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Thresholds of the Private Paul Longley Arthur and Leena Kurvet-Käosaar1. Family Memoir and Self-Discovery Jeremy D. Popkin2. Voices in Movement: Feminist Family Stories in Oral History and Sound Art Margaretta Jolly3. The Epistolary Dynamics of Sisterhood Across the Iron Curtain Leena Kurvet-Käosaar4. The Odyssey Quilts: Narrative Artworks of Childhood! War and Migration Nonja Peters5. Is Autobiographical Writing a Historical Document?: The Impact of Self-Censorship on Life Narratives Magda Stroinska and Vikki Cecchetto6. Material Memory and the Digital Paul Longley Arthur7. Because it's Your Country: Death and its Meanings in West Arnhem Land Martin Thomas8. 'from Organic Arts': Tsamorita! Rosaries! and the Poem of My Grandma's Life Craig Santos Perez ...
