La question des biographiques, et celle autobiographies, a déjà été évoquée dans Pensée, avec d’autres approches. Notamment, Philippe Malrieu, l’un plus grands psychologues français, fait le point sur la manière de considérer une trajectoire caractéristiques singulières au regard milieux socialisation qui les ont advenir. &...

This article analyses Jamaica Kincaid’s autobiographical novel See Now Then through the metaphor of palimpsest with aim exploring frictions between different generic and thematic layers that make up text. It argues despite novel’s openness, its concerns, most notably treatment time narrative temporality, encourage a backward-looking stance reasserts past. The theories Sarah Dillon Lene Johannes...

Assumptions of difficulties with social interaction, or lack of interest in social interaction, are central to many definitions and conventional understandings of autism. However, many individuals with autism describe a strong craving social interaction. This article uses autobiographical accounts written by individuals who identified as autistic as a source of qualitative research data and spe...

The social and political context of sexual identity development in the United States has changed dramatically since the mid twentieth century. Same-sex attracted individuals have long needed to reconcile their desire with policies of exclusion, ranging from explicit outlaws on same-sex activity to exclusion from major social institutions such as marriage. This paper focuses on the implications ...

In the past decade, language memoirs, linguistic autobiographies, and learners’ journals and diaries have become a popular means of data collection in applied linguistics. It is not always clear however how one should go about analyzing these data. The aim of this paper is to offer a critical review of analytical frameworks applied to second language users’ personal narratives. I discuss the st...