Remembering Contentious Lives by Duygu Erbil, Ann Rigney, Cla... - 9783031734496

Remembering Contentious LivesAuthor(s): Duygu Erbil, Ann Rigney, Clara Vlessing\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031734496, 978-3031734496\nSynopsis\nThis collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, this volume takes life-writing as a new point of observation on the entanglement between memory and activism.\n\nThis is an open access book.