Life Writing is a literary genre comprising narrative forms that document individual lived experiences, distinguished by its focus on subjective truth and autobiographical authenticity within the broader domain of nonfiction and personal testimony.
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Life-writingWomen's Epistolary Writing
Publications
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Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author.
Richard Fardon, Clifford Geertz · Man · 1988 · 1.8K citations
Reading autobiography: a guide for interpreting life narratives
Choice Reviews Online · 2011 · 1.2K citations
Bonnie Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht et al. · Communications of the ACM · 2004 · 968 citations
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- LTLaurel Thatcher Ulrich
University of New Hampshire at Manchester, United States
3 publications · 547 citations
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York University
Toronto, Canada
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4 publications
82 citations
Universidad de Navarra
Pamplona, Spain
4 h-index
5 publications
72 citations
City University of New York
New York, United States
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5 publications
175 citations
University of Victoria
Victoria, Canada
4 h-index
16 publications
253 citations
Flinders University
Adelaide, Australia
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5 publications
75 citations
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
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3 publications
45 citations
New York University
New York, United States
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3 publications
130 citations
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, United States
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4 publications
865 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 85 publications · 5K citations
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- Qualitative Inquiry
QI · 17 publications · 670 citations
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- American Literature
15 publications · 928 citations
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- Biography
22 publications · 782 citations
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- a/b Auto/Biography Studies
12 publications · 425 citations
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