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y separately published work icon A/b: Auto/Biography Studies vol. 37 no. 2 2022 26448206 2022 periodical issue
y separately published work icon A/b: Auto/Biography Studies vol. 37 no. 1 2022 26448141 2022 periodical issue
y separately published work icon A/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 36 no. 3 2021 26448046 2021 periodical issue
y separately published work icon A/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 36 no. 2 2021 26447972 2021 periodical issue
y separately published work icon A/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 35 no. 2 2020 26447874 2020 periodical issue
y separately published work icon A/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 35 no. 1 2020 26447354 2020 periodical issue 'Two images locate this special issue. The first is the portrait on the cover of “Life Writing in the Anthropocene,” from Anna Laurent’s immersive installation Flora: Exploration to Extinction. This site-specific installation was commissioned for the corridors of the Exhibitionist Hotel in South Kensington, London, in 2018. Arranged on the saturated color of the emerald walls, the gilt frames emphasize the portrait presentation of black silhouettes of species of extinct or endangered flora, each accompanied by an information panel including the plant name, native ecology, and ecological pressures. Laurent chose black silhouettes to signify the absence of these plants in the landscape, as well as a historical reference to conventions of Victorian portraiture and nineteenth-century plant exploration, a period during which “species traveled the globe and luxurious images of flora were fetishized,” particularly in an era of perceived ecological abundance.1 Here, the gilt frames are surrounded by dried seed heads and leaves, preserved relics of plant life that are spray-painted gold. The specific silhouette we have selected for the cover is the miniature cactus Biznaguita (Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae), which is endemic to one location in Neuvo León, Mexico. Its population has reduced by seventy-five percent in fifteen years and it is at risk of extinction due to illegal collection and climate change.' (Jessica White and Gillian Whitlock Introduction)
y separately published work icon A/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 34 no. 2 2019 26447303 2019 periodical issue
y separately published work icon A/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 33 no. 3 2018 26447201 2018 periodical issue
y separately published work icon a/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 28 no. 1 Summer 2013 6201243 2013 periodical issue
y separately published work icon a/b : Auto/Biography Studies Special Issue : Paul John Eakin and James Olney: A Festschrift vol. 23 no. 1 2008 8166880 2008 periodical issue
y separately published work icon a/b : Auto/Biography Studies Special Issue : Epistolarity in the Twenty-First Century vol. 21 no. 1 2006 8166926 2006 periodical issue
y separately published work icon a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Special Issue : Life Writing and the Generations vol. 19 no. 1/2 Summer/Winter 2004 Z1373601 2004 periodical issue
y separately published work icon a/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 14 no. 2 Winter 1999 Z845820 1999 periodical issue
y separately published work icon a/b : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 12 no. 1 1997 Z821878 1997 periodical issue
y separately published work icon A/B : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 9 no. 1 1994 Z1550909 1994 periodical issue
y separately published work icon A/B : Auto/Biography Studies vol. 8 no. 1 1993 Z1556039 1993 periodical issue
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