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The aesthetics and politics of North American female memoir (1990-present) - multicultural perspectives.

2012/05/B/HS2/04004

Keywords:

memoir life-writing genre memoir by minority women academic memoir memoir by women writers creative non-fiction memory postmemory identity photography ekphrasis paratext

Descriptors:

  • HS2_2: Theory of literature, history of literary studies, methodology and trends in literary and cultural studies, anthropology of literature, comparative literature, literary and cultural translatology

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Anglistyki

woj. wielkopolskie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Agnieszka Rzepa 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: OPUS 3 - announced on 2012-03-15

Amount awarded: 249 960 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-03-22

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2017-06-21

Project duration:: 51 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Komputery z oprogramowaniem (m.in. Microsoft Office) (3 szt.) (15 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (8)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (6)
  1. "This has been a painful story to tell" Excavating stories of motherhood, alcohol abuse and writing in two North American memoirs: "Lit" by Mary Karr and "Drunk Mom" by Jowita Bydlowska
    Authors:
    Dagmara Drewniak
    Academic press:
    a/b: Auto/Biography Studies , Wydawca: Taylor and Francis Ltd
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. The concept of the self in Come Walk with Me: A Memoir by Beatrice Mosionier
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Rzepa
    Academic press:
    Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies (rok: 2015, tom: 50/2-3, strony: 81-94.), Wydawca: UAM
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/stap-2015-0025 - link to the publication
  3. 'And yet, what would we be without memory?' Visualizing Memory in Two Canadian Graphic Texts
    Authors:
    Dagmara Drewniak
    Academic press:
    Studia Anglica Posnaniensia (rok: 2018, tom: 53, strony: 45436), Wydawca: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.2478/stap-2018-0001 - link to the publication
  4. 'It was empty and silent, except for the devilish laughter of the coyotes' – the perception of Canada as a peaceable kingdom and promised land in selected immigrant memoirs"
    Authors:
    Drewniak, Dagmara
    Academic press:
    TransCanadiana. Polish Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue Polonaise d'Études Canadiennes (rok: 2013, tom: 6, strony: 179-192), Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Badań Kanadyjskich
    Status:
    Published
  5. Addicted to the Holocaust – Bernice Eisenstein's Ways of Coping with Troublesome Memories in I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
    Authors:
    Dagmara Drewniak
    Academic press:
    Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies (rok: 2015, tom: 50/2-3, strony: 39-50), Wydawca: UAM
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/stap-2015-0022 - link to the publication
  6. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: : An International Review of English Studies 50/2-3
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Rzepa (red.), Dagmara Drewniak (red.)
    Academic press:
    Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies (rok: 2015, tom: 50/2-3, strony: 1-188), Wydawca: UAM
    Status:
    Published
  7. Changing Traditions in Non-fictional Jewish-Canadian Writing – the Study of Selected Texts by Eva Hoffman, Elaine Kalman Naves and Bernice Eisenstein
    Authors:
    Dagmara Drewniak
    Academic press:
    Archiwum Emigracji. Studia – Szkice – Dokumenty (rok: 2014, tom: 1-2 (20-21), strony: 154-167), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/AE.2014.012 - link to the publication
  8. "Root Seekers Are Root Makers" - Researching the Past in Erin Einhorn's Memoir "Pages in Between - A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home"
    Authors:
    Katarzyna Macedulska
    Academic press:
    Polish-AngloSaxon Studies (rok: 2015, tom: 18, strony: 63-85), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
    Status:
    Published
  1. nie dotyczy
    Authors:
    Macedulska K, Wirth R, Serrati D. (red.)
    Book:
    Storying Humanity: Narratives of Culture and Society (rok: 2015, tom: -, strony: 254 strony), Wydawca: Inter-Disciplinry Press
    Status:
    Published
  2. 'It's Our Shared Memories… The Stories We Tell…': Politics and Identity in Two Memoirs by Hungarian-Canadians
    Authors:
    Dagmara Drewniak
    Book:
    Writing the Self: Essays on Autobiography and Autofiction (rok: 2015, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 93-102), Wydawca: Södertörns högskola
    Status:
    Published
  3. Stories from the Wild Zone: Some Recent Developments of the American Memoir by Women
    Authors:
    Katarzyna Macedulska
    Book:
    American Wild Zones. Space, Experience, Consciousness (rok: 2016, tom: -, strony: 117-130), Wydawca: Peter Lang Verlag
    Status:
    Published
  4. brak
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Rzepa, Dagmara Drewniak, Katarzyna Macedulska
    Book:
    The self and the world. Aspects of the aesthetics and politics of contemporary North American literary memoir by women (rok: 2018, tom: brak, strony: 215), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
    Status:
    Published
  5. "'Between Receipes and Stories': Food as Metaphor for Identity - Marusya Bociurkiw's Comfort Food for Breakups and Laura Elise Taylor's A Taste for Paprika"
    Authors:
    Drewniak Dagmara
    Book:
    "Cranes on the Rise": Metaphors in Life Writing (rok: 2018, ), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  6. Metaphors of Interrelatedness in Lorna Crozier's "Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir"
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Rzepa
    Book:
    "Cranes on the Rise": Metaphors in Life Writing (rok: 2018, ), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Accepted for publication