Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
What We Do When We Do Life Writing: Methodologies for Auto/Biography Now
Forms
1 Writing Memoir
2 Archival Methods in Auto/Biographical Research
3 Zines
4 Objects and Things
5 Social, Media, Life Writing: Online Lives at Scale, Up Close, and In Context
6 Studying Visual Autobiographies in the Post-Digital Era
7 Biography
8 Research Methods for Studying Graphic Biography
9 Working With Family Histories
10 Tracing Emotional Bonds in Family Letters: A Pursuit of an Epistolary Melody
11 Life Narrative Methods for Working With Diaries
12 Autoethnographic Life Writing: Reaching Beyond, Crossing Over
13 Telling Life Stories Using Creative Methods in Qualitative Interviews
14 Performing and Broadcasting Lives: Auto/Biographical Testimonies in Theatre and Radio
15 Big Data and Self-Tracking: Research Trajectories
Frameworks
16 Another Story
17 Reading Digital Lives Generously
18 Reading the Life Narratives of Children and Youth
19 Negotiated Truths and Iterative Practice in Action: The Women in Conflict Expressive Life Writing Project
20 Researching Online Biographical Media and Death Narratives After the Digital Turn
21 An Epistemological Approach to Trans* Autobiography
22 Genetics and Auto/Biography
23 Doing Disability Autobiography: Introducing Reading Group Methodology as Feminist Disability Praxis
24 Sanctioning Subjectivity: Navigating Low-Risk Human Ethics Approval
25 Girls' Auto/Biographical Media: The Importance of Audience Reception in Studying Undervalued Life Narrative
26 Locating Diasporic Lives: Beyond Textual Boundaries
27 The Diary as a Life Story: Working With Documents of Family and Migration
28 Between Forced Confession and Ethnic Autobiography
29 Autobiographical Research With Children
30 Ecocriticism and Life Narrative
Afterword
31 The Box in the Attic: Memoir, Methodology, and Family Archives
Index