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Narrating Lives and Contemporary Imaginaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Sidonie Smith
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Good evening, colleagues and friends. Tonight I have the honor of talking with you about my decided passion, narrating lives.

Emerging from dispersed global locations, circulated for difering purposes, life narration moves along predictable and unpredictable routes to publics and to archives near and far. High forms and low forms. Long forms and short forms. Lyric forms and documentary forms. Narrated lives in the irst, second, third, and plural persons. Life stories in print, comics, photography, ilm, and Second Life.

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Presidential Address 2011
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PMLA , Volume 126 , Issue 3 , May 2011 , pp. 564 - 574
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2011

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