L Englund
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 53346 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L Englund |
| PRENOMES | L |
| SOBRENOME | Englund |
| ASSINATURA | ENGLUND L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7019-7943 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
AfroSwedishness as strategic and shared identity in two Swedish memoirs
As an emerging concept, AfroSwedish encompasses the multiple racialized and minoritized identities of Swedes with African ancestry. An AfroSwedish identity is often negotiated in relation to childhood experiences of racism, attempts to reconcile Swedishness with African origins or ancestry and eventually reconnecting with African roots. This article examines two memoirs, Slumpens barn: Den osannolika berättelsen om när Sverige mötte Gambia by Ama…
Migration and Mental Health in Two Contemporary Memoirs
This article examines two autobiographical texts that address the relationship between migration and struggles with mental health: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s The Undocumented Americans (2021) and Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (2020). Both memoirs help bring mental health issues to light in situations of precarity, and the texts indicate that it is not just the experience of physical dislocation that may c…
Reclaiming and redeeming the narrative in Harry & Meghan and Spare
Grieving Bodily Loss in Celebrity Illness Memoir
The relationship between public and private is central to celebrity memoir, even more so in connection to chronic illness that slowly progresses. This article examines the process of grieving publicly a life and body that are changing in Michael J. Fox's No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality (2020), and Selma Blair's Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up (2022). Fox addresses the slow deterioration brought on by Parkinson's disease…
From Rockstar Politician To Celebrity Influencer
Sanna Marin, Finland’s former prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party, has gained extensive media coverage in recent years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Finnish NATO membership, as well as becoming something of a social media influencer and style icon. This article examines Marin’s rise to fame from top politician to celebrity influencer, drawing on previous theorizations of persona studies, relating to the celebrity politician a…
Telling all yet revealing nothing
This article examines personal narratives of reality TV stars and introduces the term reality memoir to describe their unique features and purposes. The reality memoir as discussed here in relation to four texts follows a trajectory different from traditional memoir, being, paradoxically, less about revealing new information than about managing that which is already out there. By doing so, reality memoir effectively becomes an extension of the re…
Temporalities of migration in Roberto Lovato’s memoir Unforgetting
Time in autobiographical writing is central for the construction of the self and a cohesive identity. The autobiographical text balances between being geared towards the future despite its preoccupation with the past, while written from a present perspective relating to the time of writing. Experiences of migration introduce yet another dimension, as migration is movement in both place and time. This article examines two autobiographical texts th…
Shifting Temporalities and Future-Oriented Ends in Two End-of-Life Memoirs
Response to Marzia Milazzo’s article “ ‘The Hand That Tried to Feed You
This essay constitutes a response to Marzia Milazzo’s article “ ‘The Hand That Tried to Feed You’: Capture, White Saviourism, and the Dehumanisation of Dambudzo Marechera in Flora Veit-Wild’s They Called You Dambudzo
Celebrity myth-making
In May 2022, at the annual Met Gala, Kim Kardashian made an appearance in the iconic dress worn by Marilyn Monroe at President John F. Kennedy’s birthday celebration in 1962. Controversy ensued, relating both to the actual wearing of the dress and to the celebrity status of Kim vs. Marilyn and whether Kardashian had the moral and cultural right to wear the dress. In the aftermath of the Met Gala, debates about the ways in which the two stars are …
The afterlives of death
This paper examines the interplay between gratitude and gratefulness in connection to accepting terminal illness and the finality of death in the autobiographical writing of Jenny Diski and Oliver Sacks, who died of cancer in 2016 and 2015 respectively. Instead of focusing solely on the embodied experiences of illness or on the desire to be remembered, the paper explores the personal and public dimensions of writing about terminal illness through…
Writing against white fragility in Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s Sorry, Not Sorry
Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s essay collection Sorry, Not Sorry: Experiences of Brown Woman in a White South Africa draws on personal experiences in its representation of inequality and racism in South Africa. This paper argues that the essay collection participates in the reshaping of discourses of race that have gained new urgency from texts such as Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge and White Fragility: Why It’s So…
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir
Recent years have seen calls for a reorientation towards anticolonial perspectives and for further decolonization in many formerly colonized countries. Meanwhile, postcolonial studies have been criticized for being too western-oriented and too focused on diasporic subjects. This article addresses these critiques through an examination of anticolonial engagement in three South African memoirs: Reclaiming Home by Lesego Malepe, Memoirs of a Born Fr…
Against Color-Blindness
Topics relating to race and experiences of racism are made visible through literary texts such as Carol Anderson’s White Rage and Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race. This paper examines the ways in which the two texts address historical trajectories of racism and how they suggest these histories should be dealt with in the present, drawing on Michael Rothberg’s theory of implication in oppressive and unjust pas…
Autobiography as Archival Act
This paper investigates the archival dimension in two autobiographical texts that combine personal memoir with biography. The two memoirs They Called You Dambudzo by Flora Veit-Wild and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller document and examine the lives of loved ones in connection to the authors’ own experiences. Veit-Wild writes about her relationship with canonised Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and Fuller fo…
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts
Finding new ways to address oppressive pasts has been a prominent theme in South African nonfiction since the end of apartheid, writers often seeking to explore personal and collective implication and guilt. The legacies of oppression and discrimination spill over into the South African present of social and economic inequality. This article examines four autobiographical texts that address notions of personal and collective implication in South …
South African Autobiography as Subjective History
The HIV/Aids epidemic revisited in times of Covid-19
This paper examines two autobiographical responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa from the perspective of responsibility and rights. The analysis draws on interdisciplinary studies of the epidemic and its effects on South African communities. Memoirs by Edwin Cameron and Sister Abegail Ntleko address challenges in South Africa with regard to attitudes toward and treatment of HIV-infected people. Both writers use their texts to advocate …
Narrating a Nation Left Behind
Child narrators and protagonists have been a recurring feature of much of the literature produced in and of Zimbabwe since independence 1980. Their experiences of growing up have often been seen as mirroring that of the nation itself, such as in Nervous Conditions (1988) and We Need New Names (2013), depicting childhood as inherently political and directly involved in social and historical transition. This article asks what happens when the child…
(Un)dignified migration
This article analyses images of the refugee in the novel Travellers (2019) by Helon Habila and examines their connection to dignity and personal history. Travellers captures the complex and intricate situations of refugees and migrants in Europe, providing insights about urgent social issues such as inequality, racism and discrimination. The novel also raises questions relating to human rights discourses and how they connect with personal history…
Toward postmigrant realities in Leila Aboulela’s Elsewhere, Home
The number of migration narratives published in recent years in the form of short stories, novels, poetry, and nonfiction has been considerable, particularly by writers connected with the African continent. Previous studies on this body of work have included investigations of identity and otherness, transnational connections, and cosmopolitan aspirations. Despite this abundance of perspectives on the literature, there have also been urgent calls …
Re-examining Settler Discourse in Alexandra Fuller’s Autobiographical Writing
Since 2000, a large number of memoirs by white Zimbabwean writers have emerged, often focusing on the complex relationship between history and the present, between personal and collective identity, and on displacement and nostalgia. One such memoir is Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (published in 2002). Recent criticism has focused on the discourse in the memoir, arguing that it represents settler discourse (or Rhodesian di…
Celebrity myth-making
In May 2022, at the annual Met Gala, Kim Kardashian made an appearance in the iconic dress worn by Marilyn Monroe at President John F. Kennedy’s birthday celebration in 1962. Controversy ensued, relating both to the actual wearing of the dress and to the celebrity status of Kim vs. Marilyn and whether Kardashian had the moral and cultural right to wear the dress. In the aftermath of the Met Gala, debates about the ways in which the two stars are …
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir
Recent years have seen calls for a reorientation towards anticolonial perspectives and for further decolonization in many formerly colonized countries. Meanwhile, postcolonial studies have been criticized for being too western-oriented and too focused on diasporic subjects. This article addresses these critiques through an examination of anticolonial engagement in three South African memoirs: Reclaiming Home by Lesego Malepe, Memoirs of a Born Fr…
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts
Finding new ways to address oppressive pasts has been a prominent theme in South African nonfiction since the end of apartheid, writers often seeking to explore personal and collective implication and guilt. The legacies of oppression and discrimination spill over into the South African present of social and economic inequality. This article examines four autobiographical texts that address notions of personal and collective implication in South …
The HIV/Aids epidemic revisited in times of Covid-19
This paper examines two autobiographical responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa from the perspective of responsibility and rights. The analysis draws on interdisciplinary studies of the epidemic and its effects on South African communities. Memoirs by Edwin Cameron and Sister Abegail Ntleko address challenges in South Africa with regard to attitudes toward and treatment of HIV-infected people. Both writers use their texts to advocate …
Narrating a Nation Left Behind
Child narrators and protagonists have been a recurring feature of much of the literature produced in and of Zimbabwe since independence 1980. Their experiences of growing up have often been seen as mirroring that of the nation itself, such as in Nervous Conditions (1988) and We Need New Names (2013), depicting childhood as inherently political and directly involved in social and historical transition. This article asks what happens when the child…
(Un)dignified migration
This article analyses images of the refugee in the novel Travellers (2019) by Helon Habila and examines their connection to dignity and personal history. Travellers captures the complex and intricate situations of refugees and migrants in Europe, providing insights about urgent social issues such as inequality, racism and discrimination. The novel also raises questions relating to human rights discourses and how they connect with personal history…
Re-examining Settler Discourse in Alexandra Fuller’s Autobiographical Writing
Since 2000, a large number of memoirs by white Zimbabwean writers have emerged, often focusing on the complex relationship between history and the present, between personal and collective identity, and on displacement and nostalgia. One such memoir is Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (published in 2002). Recent criticism has focused on the discourse in the memoir, arguing that it represents settler discourse (or Rhodesian di…
(Un)dignified migration
This article analyses images of the refugee in the novel Travellers (2019) by Helon Habila and examines their connection to dignity and personal history. Travellers captures the complex and intricate situations of refugees and migrants in Europe, providing insights about urgent social issues such as inequality, racism and discrimination. The novel also raises questions relating to human rights discourses and how they connect with personal history…
Toward postmigrant realities in Leila Aboulela’s Elsewhere, Home
The number of migration narratives published in recent years in the form of short stories, novels, poetry, and nonfiction has been considerable, particularly by writers connected with the African continent. Previous studies on this body of work have included investigations of identity and otherness, transnational connections, and cosmopolitan aspirations. Despite this abundance of perspectives on the literature, there have also been urgent calls …
South African Autobiography as Subjective History
The HIV/Aids epidemic revisited in times of Covid-19
This paper examines two autobiographical responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa from the perspective of responsibility and rights. The analysis draws on interdisciplinary studies of the epidemic and its effects on South African communities. Memoirs by Edwin Cameron and Sister Abegail Ntleko address challenges in South Africa with regard to attitudes toward and treatment of HIV-infected people. Both writers use their texts to advocate …
Narrating a Nation Left Behind
Child narrators and protagonists have been a recurring feature of much of the literature produced in and of Zimbabwe since independence 1980. Their experiences of growing up have often been seen as mirroring that of the nation itself, such as in Nervous Conditions (1988) and We Need New Names (2013), depicting childhood as inherently political and directly involved in social and historical transition. This article asks what happens when the child…
Against Color-Blindness
Topics relating to race and experiences of racism are made visible through literary texts such as Carol Anderson’s White Rage and Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race. This paper examines the ways in which the two texts address historical trajectories of racism and how they suggest these histories should be dealt with in the present, drawing on Michael Rothberg’s theory of implication in oppressive and unjust pas…
Autobiography as Archival Act
This paper investigates the archival dimension in two autobiographical texts that combine personal memoir with biography. The two memoirs They Called You Dambudzo by Flora Veit-Wild and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller document and examine the lives of loved ones in connection to the authors’ own experiences. Veit-Wild writes about her relationship with canonised Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and Fuller fo…
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts
Finding new ways to address oppressive pasts has been a prominent theme in South African nonfiction since the end of apartheid, writers often seeking to explore personal and collective implication and guilt. The legacies of oppression and discrimination spill over into the South African present of social and economic inequality. This article examines four autobiographical texts that address notions of personal and collective implication in South …
The afterlives of death
This paper examines the interplay between gratitude and gratefulness in connection to accepting terminal illness and the finality of death in the autobiographical writing of Jenny Diski and Oliver Sacks, who died of cancer in 2016 and 2015 respectively. Instead of focusing solely on the embodied experiences of illness or on the desire to be remembered, the paper explores the personal and public dimensions of writing about terminal illness through…
Writing against white fragility in Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s Sorry, Not Sorry
Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s essay collection Sorry, Not Sorry: Experiences of Brown Woman in a White South Africa draws on personal experiences in its representation of inequality and racism in South Africa. This paper argues that the essay collection participates in the reshaping of discourses of race that have gained new urgency from texts such as Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge and White Fragility: Why It’s So…
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir
Recent years have seen calls for a reorientation towards anticolonial perspectives and for further decolonization in many formerly colonized countries. Meanwhile, postcolonial studies have been criticized for being too western-oriented and too focused on diasporic subjects. This article addresses these critiques through an examination of anticolonial engagement in three South African memoirs: Reclaiming Home by Lesego Malepe, Memoirs of a Born Fr…
From Rockstar Politician To Celebrity Influencer
Sanna Marin, Finland’s former prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party, has gained extensive media coverage in recent years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Finnish NATO membership, as well as becoming something of a social media influencer and style icon. This article examines Marin’s rise to fame from top politician to celebrity influencer, drawing on previous theorizations of persona studies, relating to the celebrity politician a…
Telling all yet revealing nothing
This article examines personal narratives of reality TV stars and introduces the term reality memoir to describe their unique features and purposes. The reality memoir as discussed here in relation to four texts follows a trajectory different from traditional memoir, being, paradoxically, less about revealing new information than about managing that which is already out there. By doing so, reality memoir effectively becomes an extension of the re…
Temporalities of migration in Roberto Lovato’s memoir Unforgetting
Time in autobiographical writing is central for the construction of the self and a cohesive identity. The autobiographical text balances between being geared towards the future despite its preoccupation with the past, while written from a present perspective relating to the time of writing. Experiences of migration introduce yet another dimension, as migration is movement in both place and time. This article examines two autobiographical texts th…
Shifting Temporalities and Future-Oriented Ends in Two End-of-Life Memoirs
Response to Marzia Milazzo’s article “ ‘The Hand That Tried to Feed You
This essay constitutes a response to Marzia Milazzo’s article “ ‘The Hand That Tried to Feed You’: Capture, White Saviourism, and the Dehumanisation of Dambudzo Marechera in Flora Veit-Wild’s They Called You Dambudzo
Celebrity myth-making
In May 2022, at the annual Met Gala, Kim Kardashian made an appearance in the iconic dress worn by Marilyn Monroe at President John F. Kennedy’s birthday celebration in 1962. Controversy ensued, relating both to the actual wearing of the dress and to the celebrity status of Kim vs. Marilyn and whether Kardashian had the moral and cultural right to wear the dress. In the aftermath of the Met Gala, debates about the ways in which the two stars are …
Migration and Mental Health in Two Contemporary Memoirs
This article examines two autobiographical texts that address the relationship between migration and struggles with mental health: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s The Undocumented Americans (2021) and Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (2020). Both memoirs help bring mental health issues to light in situations of precarity, and the texts indicate that it is not just the experience of physical dislocation that may c…
Reclaiming and redeeming the narrative in Harry & Meghan and Spare
Grieving Bodily Loss in Celebrity Illness Memoir
The relationship between public and private is central to celebrity memoir, even more so in connection to chronic illness that slowly progresses. This article examines the process of grieving publicly a life and body that are changing in Michael J. Fox's No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality (2020), and Selma Blair's Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up (2022). Fox addresses the slow deterioration brought on by Parkinson's disease…
AfroSwedishness as strategic and shared identity in two Swedish memoirs
As an emerging concept, AfroSwedish encompasses the multiple racialized and minoritized identities of Swedes with African ancestry. An AfroSwedish identity is often negotiated in relation to childhood experiences of racism, attempts to reconcile Swedishness with African origins or ancestry and eventually reconnecting with African roots. This article examines two memoirs, Slumpens barn: Den osannolika berättelsen om när Sverige mötte Gambia by Ama…
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