Essays in Life Writing

<p>This book showcases a unique innovative form for contemporary life narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field defined through attention to diverse styles of personal and auto/biographical narration and to subjectivity and ethics in acts of self-representation. The essay is a uniquely sympathetic mode for such scholarship responsive to diverse methods genres and concepts and enabling a flexible hybrid critical and creative approach. Many of the essays curated for this volume are by the authors of creative works of life writing who are seeking to reflect critically on disciplinary issues connected to practice ethics audience or genre. Others show academics from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds engaged in creative critical self-reflection using methods of cultural analysis ethnography or embodied scholarship to address foundational and emerging issues and concepts in relation to identity experience or subjectivity. </p><p>Essays in Life Writing positions the essay as a unique nexus of creative and critical practice available to academics publishing peer-reviewed scholarly work from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and a form of scholarship that is contributing in exciting and vigorous ways to the development of new knowledge in Life Narrative as a field. </p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal <i>Life Writing</i>. </p>