Genre Of Memoir Research Articles

Exploring transness through the graphic memoir: Bishakh Som on crafting Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

ABSTRACT This interview with Bishakh Som, author of Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir, explores the integral qualities of the comics medium in conveying queer identities. In her work, Bishakh discusses how the immediacy of drawing offers a powerful means of expressing marginalised experiences, emphasising the ‘war’ between text and images. This tension creates a narrative space where the interaction between words and visuals deepens the exploration of diverse genders and sexualities. Bishakh talks about how the genre of memoir serves as a space for both personal reflection and imaginative exploration, where the memoir allows for the expression of desire and fantasy, using memory excavation and wish-fulfilment to delve into personal and imaginative realms. The conversation also touches on the impact of diasporic experiences on Bishakh’s sense of home and identity, the satirical critique of xenophobic corporate attitudes, and the role of food and cultural heritage in the narrative. Bishakh explains that duo-tone differentiates the prologue and epilogue from the vibrant colours used for Anjali, blending fact and fiction in portraying transness. The interview also explores how goth subculture influenced Bishakh’s gender exploration and discusses the cover design, symbolising the integration of gender identities and joyous unity.

Female Athlete Memoirs as Postfeminist Fairy Tales

Athlete memoirs are a popular sports genre. They are often marketed as tales of fidelity that candidly detail an athlete’s journey to success. This paper conducts a narrative analysis of athlete memoirs to uncover how white female athletes talk about themselves and their experiences. The memoirs under analysis are “Letters To A Young Gymnast” by Nadia Comaneci, “In the Water They Can’t See You Cry” by Amanda Beard, and “Brave Enough” by Jessie Diggins. Postfeminism and feminist standpoint theory serve as theoretical frameworks to support the interpretation of the data. Female athletes employ postfeminist tropes such as individuality, empowerment, and self-governance in the articulation of their athletic success. Moreover, they complete their narrative by disclosing details from their heterosexual romances. The research question this paper answers is: how do white female athletes use the genre of memoir to talk about themselves and their experiences? This paper identifies a prevalence of hypermasculinity and heterosexism in female athlete memoirs.

Философский диалог: М.М. Бахтин – А.А. Дорогов (воспоминания и архивные свидетельства)

The name of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895–1975), an outstanding thinker of the 20th century, philosopher and cultural scientist, is widely known. The relevance of his research thought, which comprehended the depth of knowledge about man in the forms of literary creativity, as well as in historical forms of culture, only increases over the years. Because of this, interest in his legacy, including his scientific dialogues, is also increasing. The article provides memories about one of M.M. Bakhtin’s interlocutors – Alexei Alexandrovich Dorogov (1923-2003), whose name is well known only to those who knew him personally, talked with him, listened to his lectures on a wide range of historical, philosophical and cultural problems. This publication sets out to bring out of the shadows of oblivion our remarkable compatriot, a profound and original thinker who was linked to M.M. Bakhtin by a friendship that began on 20 August 1965 and lasted until the latter's death in 1975. Their dialogues can be attributed not just to the genre of memoirs, but to the history of scientific thought. The article is supplemented by the author’s personal memories of meetings and conversations with A. Dorogov. The publication may open up new facets of M.M. Bakhtin’s life and work, as well as to complete the picture of scientific thought of the twentieth century by including in it a little-known thinker, Alexei Alexandrovich Dorogov.

Narrating Trauma as Victims of Human Trafficking in China: A Study on Select North Korean Memoirs

The memoirs titled In Order to Live; A North Korean Girl's Journey, to Freedom and; A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea are written by Yeonmi Park and Eunsun Kim two women who managed to escape from North Korea. They went through an experience of being forced into labour in China as victims of trafficking. In their memoirs these authors vividly depict the pain that comes with being exploited. The main aim of this study is to analyse how memoirs can effectively address the issue of trafficking. These remarkable women skilfully use the memoir genre to make a personal plea for action. They strategically make choices appeal to readers emotions openly share their distressing experiences and support their stories with research and evidence that connect their experiences with the broader problem of human trafficking in China. This study clearly shows that both these memoirs emphasize the importance of the memoir genre in advocating for rights. It also highlights how survivor memoirs have the potential to inspire advocacy and involvement, in combating trafficking.

Особенности мемуарной прозы А. Урусовой (на примере книги «Ёмюр танышланы сагъы-ныу» («Воспоминания о современниках»)

The work examines the features and historical and cultural significance of memoir prose, theoreti-cal and methodological approaches to the study of the genre. Based on the work of A. Urusova, an attempt was made to identify the aesthetic beginning of the memoirs in the totality of their dis-tinctive features: personal experience (through the prism of the author’s individual perception), factuality, retrospectiveness, authenticity, as well as a comprehensive and new look at the work of the Karachay writer, characterized by a non-standard set axiological models of self-expression, a tendency towards clairism, modality. Because of the study of the text of A. Urusova’s book “Yomur tanyshlany sagynyu” (“Memories of contemporaries”, 1975), which reflected the histori-cal fate of the Karachay people through the prism of the activities of passionaries, the concept of historical and typological study of the memoir genre was substantiated, the features of the style and language of memoirs, principles images, the role and place of memoirs in the cultural life of the people and era are revealed. The theoretical significance of the work is in deepening ideas about various literary phenomena, in particular the genre of non-fiction prose - memoirs. Research methods: cultural-historical, descriptive-functional, biographical, historical-typological.

‘You’re really going to be fine’: celebrity cameos, toast (2010) and the British biopic

ABSTRACT When a biopic includes a cameo appearance from the subject themselves, it can serve as a persuasive claim to authenticity: what more powerful endorsement is there than figures appearing in their own life stories? Less common is the interaction between the subject and their on-screen surrogate which occurs in Toast (2010), an adaptation of food writer Nigel Slater’s memoir. Slater himself appears in the film as a Savoy chef who offers his younger self (played by Freddie Highmore) a job in a London kitchen. This interaction visualises characteristics of the memoir genre, the meeting between a past and present self, and affords rehabilitation: in representing visually the memoirist as witness to their own traumatic past, the adaptation suggests a ‘working through’ of childhood traumas associated with an abusive father. Toast also hints at the cameo’s capacity to intervene in the memoirist’s past in a manner which reflects the ‘corrective’ possibilities evident in different forms of life-writing. In having Slater offer his younger self reassurance – ‘you’re really going to be fine’ – the memoirist embodies the caring father he himself lacked. In Toast’s telling, time really is a great healer, provided you are willing to exploit the potential of the cameo appearance.

Resting her Case: “MeToo à la française” – Springora and Others

Abstract In January 2020, Vanessa Springora published Consent, an unusual memoir that discloses the elaborated version of a personal story. Springora was 14 years old when she met the 50-year-old Gabriel Matzneff, a well-known French writer. Thirty years later, she decided to take back the agency that she claims was taken from her, with the artilleries of literature. While closely following Springora’s narrative, the paper focuses on the emergence of a new “memoir genre”, which besides presenting a platform for personal redemption, instigated an important shift within the French public opinion regarding the nature of consent, and ignited significant legal reform in this regard. As will be elaborated, Consent and other works in similar spirit appositely demonstrate the power of law to stimulate certain narrative patterns, and the power of stories to influence cultural atmosphere which leads to legal changes.

Typology of the genre of military memoirs using the example of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by Lawrence of Arabia

Typology of the genre of military memoirs using the example of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by Lawrence of Arabia

Философские мемуары как литературный жанр и актуальный раздел журнальной периодики

The article examines the content and genre features of philosophical memoirs, a brief his-tory of their origin and evolution, as well as the place and role of the genre of philosophi-cal memoirs in the system of Russian periodi-cals. Considering the research tasks the mate-rial of the article is divided into three struc-tural and semantic sections. The first section analyzes the features of the genre of memo-ries, using the example of three literary and encyclopedic publications that differ in their ideological orientation. The dual artistic-documentary nature of memoirs is accentuat-ed, which gives rise to the problem of distin-guishing between their memoir and fiction components, their subjectivity and direct connection with the personality of the mem-oirist. The second section shows the historical conditions under which the first memoirs of philosophers were created. The main stages of the evolution of the genre of philosophical memoirs are traced – from confessional liter-ature to intellectual biographies. The author comments on the current trend of maintain-ing a steady interest in the genre of memoirs. The third section provides a brief description of the category of memoirs which under one name or another is present in the content and structure of the main Russian philosophi-cal journals. The author concludes that the memoirs by philosophers or about philoso-phers may appear in various rubrics of philos-ophy journals, depending on what literary and journalistic genre these works belong to. In this regard, the author suggests launching as a pilot project the publication of philosophical memoirs and documentary interview in the journal “The Digital Scholar: Philosopher`s Labˮ.

LITERARY COMPONENT IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Literature and politics have been closely connected from time immemorial. The paper is considering the genres of pamphlet, memoir and essay under the angle of their role in political discourse. It argues that texts of these genres are aimed at performing the principal function of political discourse - that of struggle for power and its retention but are oriented to different periods of political process and serve to solve different problems. The paper is considering literary works written in different countries and periods. It is shown that political authors use the possibilities of fiction to influence readers in order to instill in them certain ideas, thus forming a perspective on the perception of events that were the result of political decisions, and push people to take politically significant actions. The pamphlet is used to influence the current political process by shaping public opinion in favor of a particular actor. Memoirs are a kind of political storytelling and are intended to present the author's ideologically charged interpretation of the events that took place in the past. In its turn the established narrative of the past becomes part of the policymaking terrain, justifying existing policies and creating criteria for policy success. The political essay serves to present a politician's program during an election campaign. Political essays are critical for driving the agenda and shaping voter perceptions through literary presentation of a candidate’ programme. Emotionally coloured political essays can influence potential voters, as they suggest a particular climate of opinion, and can lead to taking decisions in the candidate’s favour.

Мемуары великих князей и родственников царской династии как памятник литературы русского зарубежья и памятник эпохи (Статья вторая)

The article first discusses how a literary monument and a historical document of the memoirs of the representatives of the Romanov dynasty and their relatives, was in exile. Revealed specific features of each of them, found the main reasons: reliance on Divine Providence, sorrow of exile and ways of survival, the preservation of cultural memory and the realization of the American dream and more. The author specifically notes that, despite all the differences and the specifics of creativity of each of the August memoirs, they are United by talent, love of country and all the memories are briefly discussed in this article are a valuable historical source. The second article examines the memoirs of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna as well as representatives of the second generation of royal exiles. The review ends with a brief analysis of the "Memoirs" by Matilda Kshesinskaya (Princess Romanovsky-Krasinsky). Using the example of studying the autobiographical prose of representatives of the Dynasty Romanovs, the author reveals some methodological aspects of the memoir genre: author's consciousness, the ratio of individual and collective gender ascetics, as well as the problem of national specificity of literature.

THE USE OF SIMPLE SENTENCES AND DIRECT SPEECH IN "BABURNAMA"

The manuscript of "Baburnama", common to the Turkic peoples, which is an example of the memoir genre, provides all the basic information about the sights in which the author himself lived and traveled. Zahir ad Din Mohammed Babur, whose life was connected with military campaigns and conquests, tried in every way to reveal his life path, which has historical significance in the literary heritage of "Baburnama". In his work, Babur realistically depicted the lifestyle of that era, and in the text of the work he used an autobiographical approach through the replicas addressed to him. This relic, filled with important information about Central Asia, Afghanistan and India, contains the author's reflections, scientific and educational comments. From the point of view of the author of the text of each part, the type of presentation is determined and the structure of the general text can be based on the system of introduction, main part, generalization. In this article, taking into account grammatical and lexical elements, Baburnama describes the functions, usage and types of simple sentences and words used by the author, and is reasoned by language analysis. Examples of simple sentences of the Kazakh language such as zhakty/zhaksyz, tolymdy/tolymsyz and nominal sentence, the methods of formation of direct speech are explained and compared with the use in the modern Kazakh language, its form and content character are determined.

The ‘seductive scientist’: the emergence of a new persona centred on virility and joy in twentieth-century scientific memoirs

This text investigates the twentieth-century scientific memoir genre from the perspective of two of its perhaps most influential contributors, the American Nobel laureates Richard Feynman and James Watson, by using theoretical tools from masculinity studies and the studies of scientific personae. The term ‘the seductive scientist’ is proposed to describe the main innovation to scientific personae that Watson introduces and Feynman perfects: a scientist who is brutally honest, openly seeks joy and fun, and is interested in sexual conquests. To include these topics is deliberately provocative in relation to earlier scientific personae, most importantly ‘the reverential scientist’, aiming for gravitas and depicting the scientific life as revolving around awe. As is shown, however, the seductive scientist, for all its bravado, is actually a persona which only promotes mild, non-disruptive rebellion. Rather than actually challenging the system, it incorporates several aspects of counter-cultural critique against science, showing it to not be pompous, conformist and boring, but rather fun, exciting and full of life. This reconfiguration of self-presentations by scientists, then, strongly influences the scientific memoir as a genre, affecting the ability of scientists to speak in the name of science.

Memoir Works of Tugolbai Sydykbekov

In this article, the significance of memoir works in literature and socio-historical development is noted. It is noted that Kyrgyz literature also has a lot of literary masters who contributed to memoir literature, one of them is T. Sydykbekov, who is one of the main aims of literary studies to carefully study the uniqueness of memoir works, author’s skill, poetics of the work as the author’s personal findings. Aim is to reveal the Way novel by T. Sydykbekov as a memoir with evidence. The article talks about the memoir work of a famous Kyrgyz writer. The author is one of the pioneers of the memoir genre in Kyrgyz literature, has created a number of works of the memoir genre, which contribute to a deep understanding of the character of specific historical figures, their views on their position in society, the peculiarities of their activities, as well as the nature of morals, national culture and values ​​of the young generation in modern times. society. It is noted that deep understanding is a great importance in upbringing.

Війна як повсякденність у „Відлунні світу” Саломеї Русєцької де Пільштин

The memoirs of Salomea Regina Pilsztyn née Rusiecka can be called a Baroque novel and, at the same time, is a remarkable monument of Belarusian and Polish literature. The work is a vivid manifestation of the self-identification of the author, who not only tries to see her life path in the context of her contemporary era but also records the memories of her life, recording the movements and experiences of her own soul. Here, the memoir genre gradually begins to dissolve in the narrative strategies of a prose work. War should be considered in memoirs as an artistic image and a phenomenon of everyday life. The discourse and historiosophy of the image of war as a history of everyday life in the memoirs of Salomea Rusiecka become the heart of his narrative strategies. War is one of the most important artistic concepts of this work. The poetics of the image of war in the text is based on a realistic presentation of events and details. War, captivity and death, blood, and suffering in the memoirs of Rusietska de Pilschtyn appear as indispensable and integral details of the history of everyday life of people and peoples of the Baroque era. The author of the memoirs created a memorable image of the war of the Baroque period giving remarkable evidence of the birth of her objectification: the narrator presents herself as a direct participant in the war events – both as a witness of particular historical processes and as involved in the space of war through her personal reflection.

ОБРАЗ ТАРАСА ШЕВЧЕНКА В ЖИТТІ ТА ТВОРЧОСТІ КОНСТАНТИНИ МАЛИЦЬКОЇ

У пропонованій статті схарактеризовано вплив творчості Тараса Шевченка на світобачення і подальшу педагогічну та громадську діяльність Константини Малицької; проаналізовано спогади письменниці «З дитячих споминів», «На фільмі споминів», а також мемуари її подруг і колег, учнів, як-от: Л. Бурачинської «Непохитна (спроба життєпису)», М.Ф. «Літературна творчість К. Малицької», Іванни Петрів «Педагог», що увійшли до книги «Виховниця поколінь Константина Малицька: громадська діячка, педагог і письменниця», яка побачила світ 1965 року в Торонто; використано архівні матеріали, зокрема ЦДІАУЛ Ф. 206 і дитячу сцену у двох діях «Вінок на могилу Тараса Шевченка», що була написана письменницею у Львові 1914 року. Проведений аналіз дає змогу стержувати, що світлий образ Кобзаря супроводжував видатну громадську діячку, просвітянку, педагога і письменницю Константину Малицьку впродовж усього життя, знаковим було також те, що в 1906 – 1914 рр. і 1920 – 1937 рр. вона працювала в школі імені Тараса Шевченка у Львові.

АВТОБІОГРАФІЧНА УТОПІЯ НАТАЛІ РОМАНОВИЧ-ТКАЧЕНКО

The article is devoted to researching the work of N. Romanovych-Tkachenko, a representative of the generation of female writers of Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s, from the perspective of gender discourse. Women's literature of Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s-1930s is an understudied and not updated phenomenon of the Ukrainian literary process of that time. Most of the texts of women writers were unnoticed by literary critics, and the problems that were raised in their texts turned out to be "uninteresting" for the then, generally male, literary critics. Instead, we note the emergence of a new generation of women writers in Ukrainian literature, formed not only by the national tradition, but also by the first wave of European feminism. They radicalize the women's issue and put forward other, unlike their predecessors, aesthetic demands on artistic texts. At the same time, it was women writers who continued the traditions of modern Ukrainian literature, in particular bright individual writing. Most of them told the reader about their biographies for the first time in the form of memories, diaries, memoirs. The peculiarity of these biographies is that they reveal a striking discrepancy between the expectations of women from the gender policy of the Bolsheviks and the revolutionary, post-revolutionary reality. We can see two biographies of the writer by comparing the artistic texts and autobiographical memories of N. Romanovych-Tkachenko. One of them is imaginary, constructed by the author on the basis of her own life project, and the second is real, as the writer lived. These two biographies in different genre forms are presented in the writer's work. Imaginary biography is described in the experience of the characters of fictional texts, while real biography is represented by the memoir genre, in particular, the diaries and memoirs of the author. The difference between these two life scenarios shaped the feminist outlook of N. Romnovich-Tkachenko and many other modern women writers.

Cestopisno-memoárová próza 18. storočia vo francúzštine: literárne črty Pamätí baróna Františka Tótha a ich miesto v súdobej literárnej tvorbe

This article describes the place of the literary genre of travelogue memoirs in the context of French literature in the 18th century. It analyzes the creation of this genre which is marked by hybridity and bears the characteristic traits of an autobiography, travelogue and memoirs. The typical case of this literary genre is a travelogue and memorialistic prose Memoirs of Turks and Tartars, written by Baron Francis de Tott, the son of a Hungarian squire and soldier who was born in France but acquired a lingustic education in Istanbul in the famous school for interpreters. As an official of the French royal court, he participated in various diplomatic and commercial missions in the Ottoman Empire. Knowing the Turkish world very well, in his text he furnishes a brilliant insight into the moslim world, which was perceived as exotic by his European coevals. The main goal of this article is to show the narrativity of this literary genre and to examine the main literary practices or techniques applied by this author who wasn‘t, by his personal itinerary, the man who wields the pen, but rather the diplomat and son of a soldier, with a light touch of adventurer as the majority of memorialistic travelogue authors in the 18th century.

«PIESEK PRZYDOROŻNНY» ТА «ABECADŁO» ЧЕСЛАВА МІЛОША ЯК КАРТИНА ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ

The article aims to study the poetics evolution of a great Polish poet and prose writer, Nobel prize winner Czesław Miłosz towards a fundamentally new comprehensive literary form: from “Piesek Przydrożny” (“Roadside Dog” 1997) to “Abecadło” (“Milosz`s ABC`s” 1997) and “Inne Abecadło” (“A Further Alphabet” 1998). The purpose stimulates the usage of the analytical, hermeneutics and receptive methodology, as well as textual analysis. It is stressed that the years of this work publication indicate the writerєі success in his determined search for a form that would be capable, containing immense life material, countless events, lives and artistic-philosophical reflections, to create the picture of the 20th century. The paper highlights why “Piesek Przydrożny” does not meet any requirements for containing the unlimited number of life facts within a text. We’ve noted the organizing function of Piesek in the system of a fictional unity. Moving freely, Piesek made it possible for Miłosz to create a certain series of philosophical pieces (“Ubóstwo wyobraźni”, “Wzniosłość”, “Pieśń dziadowsku”, “Со upadek”, “Powieść”, “Gombrowicz”, “Polski literat”) and several tragic essays – “Ojcowskie kłopoty”, “Zmartwienia historyka” and others. It is proven that while the form of this book contains a variety of material, it still cannot give Miłosz the absolute freedom he was striving for. The writer was determined to find the form which would, according to him, “allow for much freedom”, “not pursue beauty but just register facts”. Considering Е. Brazgovskaya’s findings, the productivity of the alphabet (аbecadło) is proved. The paper expresses the idea that one can treat the alphabet (аbecadło) as a kind of a memoir genre. The innovative structure of “Abecadło”, consisting of essays-novels, is analyzed. The article traces the associative connections which cement 200 essays into a single entity, creating the image of the epoch.

Review: A Taste of My Life: A Memoir in Essays and Recipes, by Chitrita Banerji

Review: <i>A Taste of My Life: A Memoir in Essays and Recipes</i>, by Chitrita Banerji