Narrating life stories in between the fictional and the autobiographical

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ID12697283
AuthorsMaarit Leskelä-Kärki (0000-0002-8028-1740, University of Turku, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume8
Issue3
Pages325-332
Publication date2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1468794106093628
OpenAlexW2168818242
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited4

This article discusses the processes of identity formation in different textual narratives, particularly in the intersections of fictional and epistolary texts, the in-between spaces where the autobiographical self becomes constituted. An important question concerns how to write about other people's lives and engage with the different textual narratives they have left behind. The Finnish writer Helmi Krohn (1871—1967) and her fictional and particularly epistolary texts offer a case study for exploring these methodological issues. In her letters to her artist colleagues, she constructs a narrative connecting her novels and her own life. I will also explore my narrative role by considering how as a historian I strive to make ethically valid analyses at the intersections of these different types of materials

Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Narrative identity · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Data Analysis and Archiving · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology

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