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'Offshoot includes essays in life writing methodologies and approaches, as well as a series of creative work – poetry and prose – that engages with current life writing. This collection highlights the development and influence of the genre in the twenty-first century.
'Starting from the premise that life writing is a significant component of both contemporary artistic practice and scholarship, Offshoot provides a necessary re-evaluation of the mode, its contemporary sub-generic incarnations, as well as methodological and practical approaches. The book presents research on a wide range of approaches, including both traditional areas such as literature and creative writing and areas that have not previously been associated with life writing scholarship.
'With its multifaceted readings, Offshoot signals a shift in life writing research tending towards an expansive, hybrid, experimental, and rhizomic approach.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Content indexing in process.
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Dedication:
This book is dedicated to the lives that remain unwritten,
were deemed not important enough to write in the first
place or lost before they could be written, as well as
those who are attempting to stem this tide.
Contents
- Conjectural and Speculative Biography : Convict and Colonial Biographies, single work criticism (p. 13-30)
- Out, single work poetry (p. 60-62)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Donna Lee Brien and Quinn Eades, Ed. Offshoot : Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 21 no. 1 2021;
— Review of Offshoot : Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice 2018 anthology criticism poetry prose 'Life writing is one of the most popular forms of literature at present. Works of autobiography, memoir and biography, particularly of and by well-known figures, are huge sellers and attract significant scholarly interest. Yet the analysis of these forms in the academy is weighted towards autobiography and memoir. This book continues that trend away from an interest in biography, although it does include several essays on the form.' (Introduction) -
Fibrillations of Life Writing
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;'‘Books talk among themselves’, Umberto Eco (1984: 61) once quipped convincingly. Readers overhear those conversations, I assert. Some books sing to you (as Francesca Rendle-Short, in her performative essay on memoir in Offshoot, says of Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race [232]). Offshoot crackles at me. Staying ululates.' (Introduction)
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Donna Lee Brien and Quinn Eades, Ed. Offshoot : Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 21 no. 1 2021;
— Review of Offshoot : Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice 2018 anthology criticism poetry prose 'Life writing is one of the most popular forms of literature at present. Works of autobiography, memoir and biography, particularly of and by well-known figures, are huge sellers and attract significant scholarly interest. Yet the analysis of these forms in the academy is weighted towards autobiography and memoir. This book continues that trend away from an interest in biography, although it does include several essays on the form.' (Introduction) -
Fibrillations of Life Writing
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;'‘Books talk among themselves’, Umberto Eco (1984: 61) once quipped convincingly. Readers overhear those conversations, I assert. Some books sing to you (as Francesca Rendle-Short, in her performative essay on memoir in Offshoot, says of Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race [232]). Offshoot crackles at me. Staying ululates.' (Introduction)
