Call for Articles for an Edited Volume : Life Writings. Recalled
Submitted by ccarlin on 15 January 2019 - 10:09amLife writing, as a term, was first used by Virginia Woolf in 1939 in “A sketch of the past.” It includes “not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries … but also letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, court proceeding (as a legal term), lyric poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms (including blogs, tweets, Facebook entries.”[1]1 So this interdisciplinary study is affected by contemporary digital literacy and the socio historical circumstances of its practitioners and theorists.