Dear All,
This should be of interest to everybody who atttended our conference in
Manchester
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> From: Duncan Large <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Call for Contributors
> Date: 07 April 1999 20:45
> 
> Call for Contributors 
> 
> The Encyclopedia of Life Writing, edited by Dr. Margaretta Jolly
> 
> The Encyclopedia of Life Writing was commissioned in June 1998, and will
> be published in 2000. It will be a large-scale guide to the various
> forms of auto/biographical writing from around the world, and will
> include entries on: genres and sub-genres; national/regional/language
> traditions; important auto/biographical writers; as well as articles on
> related areas such as oral history, anthropology, and testimonies. As
> the interdisciplinary and broadly inclusive term "life writing"
> suggests, the intent of this project is to explore not only
> autobiography and biography, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family
> histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have
> been recorded. The entries will cover life writing from Classical times
> to the present.
> 
> Approximately two-thirds of the 650 entries have been assigned, so I am
> now looking for further contributions across a range of subject areas
> and language/national traditions: all the unassigned entries appear
> below, in alphabetical order. Entries vary in length from 750 words to
> 2,000 words. Each contributor will receive an honorarium, and all
> entries are credited. Deadlines will depend on the number of entries
> taken on and the project schedule.
> 
> If you are interested in contributing, please send an email to:
> [log in to unmask],
>  indicating the relevant entries. Assignments will be made weekly from
> mid-April 1999.
> 
> The Encyclopedia also has an editorial website at
> http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/london/lifew.htm, where you can find
> further details about the project, including the names of advisory board
> members, sample entries, and a full list of the book's contents. NB, you
> can also apply for any of the unassigned entries from this site.
> 
> I hope that you will be able to take part in what has been a
> well-received and exciting project so far,
> 
> With thanks,
> Dr. Margaretta Jolly,
> Honorary Research Fellow,
> University of Sussex
> 
> (c/o M. Hawkins-Dady, Commissioning Editor, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers)
> 
> Entries	EntryType	WordLength
> 			
> Africa: Apartheid & Post-Apartheid Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Africa: Auto/biographical Poetry	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Africa: European Exploration & Travel Writings	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Africa: Independence Movement Writings	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Africa: Oral Life Story Traditions	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> Africa: Settler Writings (incl. Boers)	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> Akutagawa, Ryunosuke	Writers and Works	750	
> Andersen Nexo, Martin	Writers and Works	750	
> Aranha, Jose Pereira de Graca	Writers and Works	750	
> Artefacts and Life Writing	Contexts and Criticism	1000	
> Aung San Suu Kyi	Writers and Works	750	
> Australia: 18th & 19th-century Diaries & Letters	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Australia: 20th-century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Australia: Indigenous Life Writing & Life Story Traditions	National
> and Regional Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Autobiography and Fiction	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Autobiography Types: Criminal	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Autobiography Types: Literary	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Autobiography Types: Military	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Autobiography Types: Musical	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Autobiography Types: Philosophical	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Autobiography Types: Popular/Celebrity	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Autobiography Types: Theatrical and Cinematic	Genres and Forms
> 1500	
> Autobiography: General Survey	Genres and Forms	2500	
> Autobiography: Survey	Genres and Forms	2500	
> Avvakum, Archpriest	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Babur	Writers and Works	750	
> Barlach, Ernst	Writers and Works	750	
> Basho	Writers and Works	750	
> Bernhard, Thomas	Writers and Works	750	
> Biography and History	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Biography Types: Business	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Biography Types: Literary	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Biography Types: Medical	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Biography Types: Musical	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Biography Types: Popular/Celebrity	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Biography Types: Royal	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Biography Types: Scientific	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Biography: Survey	Genres and Forms	2500	
> Bismarck, Otto von	Writers and Works	750	
> Blixen, Karen [Isak Dinesen]	Writers and Works	750	
> Bok, Sisela	Writers and Works	750	
> Brandes, Georg	Writers and Works	750	
> Brazil: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions and
> Trends	1500	
> Breytenbach, Breyton	Writers and Works	750	
> Britain: Travel, Exploration & Imperial Expansion	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1000	
> 
> Canada: 20th-century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> Canada: Diaries & Letters to 1900	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> Canetti, Elias	Writers and Works	750	
> Caribbean, English: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Caribbean, French: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Carossa, Hans	Writers and Works	750	
> China: Classical Life Writing Forms: Survey	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Churchill, Winston	Writers and Works	750	
> Cicero	Writers and Works	750	
> Classical Greek and Roman Life Writing: Survey	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Collaborative Autobiography (incl. ghost-writing, etc.)	Genres and Forms
> 1000	
> Collective Lives	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Conduct Books	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Confucianism and Life Writing	Writers and Works	1000	
> Czech & Slovak Life Writing: Survey	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> 
> De Gaulle, Charles	Writers and Works	750	
> Denmark: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions and
> Trends	1500	
> Dery, Tibor	Writers and Works	750	
> Diaz del Castillo, Bernal	Writers and Works	750	
> Dictionary of American Biography	Writers and Works	750	
> Dictionary of Australian Biography	Writers and Works	750	
> Dictionary of Canadian Biography	Writers and Works	750	
> Documentation and Sources: Forms and Uses	Contexts and Criticism
> 1500	
> Drama and Auto/biography	Genres and Forms	1500	
> 
> East Africa: Life Writing Survey	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> Eckermann, Johann	Writers and Works	750	
> Edel, Leon	Writers and Works	750	
> Edwards, Jonathan	Writers and Works	750	
> Elegies	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Ellman, Richard	Writers and Works	750	
> Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Writers and Works	750	
> Epitaphs	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Erasmus, Desiderius	Writers and Works	750	
> Ethics of Biography	Contexts and Criticism	1000	
> Ethnicity, Race and Life Writing	Contexts and Criticism	1500	
> Ewald, Johannes	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Failure in Life Writings	Themes	1000	
> Fontane, Theodor	Writers and Works	750	
> Fontenelle, Bernard de	Writers and Works	750	
> France: 18th-century Auto/biography	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> France: 19th-century Auto/biography	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> France: 19th-century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> France: 20th-century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> France: Medieval Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions and
> Trends	1000	
> 
> Garcia Marquez, Gabriel	Writers and Works	750	
> Geer, Louis de	Writers and Works	750	
> Genealogy	Contexts and Criticism	1000	
> Germanic Countries: 17th-18th century Diaries & Letters	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Germanic Countries: 19th-century Diaries & Letters	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Germanic Countries: 20th-century Auto/biography	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Germanic Countries: 20th-century Diaries & Letters	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Ginzburg, Natalia	Writers and Works	750	
> Goethe, J.W. von	Writers and Works	750	
> Goncourt Brothers	Writers and Works	750	
> Gorz, Andre	Writers and Works	750	
> Gozzi, Carlo	Writers and Works	750	
> Greece, Modern: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Green, Julien	Writers and Works	750	
> Grillparzer, Franz	Writers and Works	750	
> Grove, Frederick Philip	Writers and Works	750	
> Guevara, Ernesto [Che]	Writers and Works	750	
> Guo Moruo	Writers and Works	750	
> Guzman	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Handbooks and Guides to Life Writing	Contexts and Criticism	1000	
> Hauptmann, Gerhart	Writers and Works	750	
> Havel, Vaclav	Writers and Works	750	
> Heiberg, Johanne Luise	Writers and Works	750	
> Herling-Grudzinski, Gustaw	Writers and Works	750	
> Herzen, Aleksandr	Writers and Works	750	
> Hinduism and Life Writing	Contexts and Criticism	1000	
> Hofman, Eva	Writers and Works	750	
> Holberg, Ludvig	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Idriss, Youssef	Writers and Works	750	
> Indian Subcontinent: 20th-century Life Writing to Partition	National
> and Regional Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Indian Subcontinent: 18th-19th Centuries (incl. Travelogues	National
> and Regional Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Indian Subcontinent:  India after Partition	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Indonesia: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Ingatius Loyola	Writers and Works	750	
> Iran/Persia: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Islam and Life Writing	Contexts and Criticism	1000	
> Italy: 17th-18th Century Auto/biography	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Italy: 19th-century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Italy: 20th-century Auto/biography	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Italy: 20th-century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Italy: Medieval & renaissance Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> 
> Jameson, Anna	Writers and Works	1000	
> Japan: Classical Life Writing Forms	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> Japan: Life Writing 19th Century to 1945	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Japan: Life Writing after 1945	National and Regional Traditions and
> Trends	1000	
> Junger, Ernst	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Kafka, Franz	Writers and Works	750	
> Kallas, Aino	Writers and Works	750	
> Kasinczy, Ferenc	Writers and Works	750	
> Kassak, Lajos	Writers and Works	750	
> Kazantzakis, Nikos	Writers and Works	750	
> Kierkegaard, Soren	Writers and Works	750	
> Korea, North and South: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Krleza, Miroslav	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Levi, Carlo	Writers and Works	750	
> Love in Life Writing	Themes	1500	
> Lu Xun	Writers and Works	750	
> Luxembourg, Rosa	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Malaysia & Singapore: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Malraux, Andre	Writers and Works	750	
> Mauriac, Claude	Writers and Works	750	
> Mehta, Ved	Writers and Works	750	
> Memoirs	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Meyer Jr., Augusto	Writers and Works	750	
> Middle East, Arabic: Autobiography Traditions	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Middle East, Arabic: Biography Traditions	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Middle East, Arabic: Travel Writings	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Molinos, Miguel de	Writers and Works	750	
> More, Bai T.	Writers and Works	750	
> Motila	Writers and Works	750	
> Murasaki Shikibu	Writers and Works	750	
> Myrdal, Jan	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Naipaul, V.S.	Writers and Works	750	
> Narrative and Life Writing	Contexts and Criticism	1500	
> Nava, Pedro	Writers and Works	750	
> Neruda, Pablo	Writers and Works	750	
> Neue Deutsche Biographie	Writers and Works	750	
> New Zealand & Polynesia: 19th-Century Life Writing	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1000	
> New Zealand & Polynesia: Indigenous Life Writing	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn	Writers and Works	750	
> Nikitenko, Aleksandr	Writers and Works	750	
> North Africa/Maghreb: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Norway: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions and
> Trends	1000	
> 
> Orality, Question of	Contexts and Criticism	1500	
> Ouyang Xiu	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Painter, George	Writers and Works	750	
> Pasek, Jan	Writers and Works	750	
> Pavese, Cesare	Writers and Works	750	
> Paz, Octavio	Writers and Works	750	
> Picaresque Novel	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Plessen, Elisabeth	Writers and Works	750	
> Pliny the Younger	Writers and Works	750	
> Plutarch	Writers and Works	750	
> Political Uses of Life Writing	Contexts and Criticism	1500	
> Poniatowska, Elena	Writers and Works	750	
> Public Life in Life Writing	Themes	1000	
> 
> Qu Yuan	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Ramos, Graciliano	Writers and Works	750	
> Reconciliation in Life Writing	Themes	1500	
> Recovery and Healing in Life Writing	Themes	1500	
> Rego, Jose Lins do	Writers and Works	750	
> Reminiscences, Recollections, Anecdotes	Genres and Forms	1000	
> Reuterdahl, Henrik	Writers and Works	750	
> Revelation in Life Writing	Themes	1000	
> Rolland, Romain	Writers and Works	750	
> Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Writers and Works	750	
> Roy, Gabrielle	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Sachs, Albie	Writers and Works	750	
> Saint-Simon, Louis de	Writers and Works	750	
> Sarton, May	Writers and Works	750	
> Schweitzer, Albert	Writers and Works	750	
> Semprun, Jorge	Writers and Works	750	
> Sexuality in Life Writing	Themes	1500	
> Sistren (Lionheart Gal)	Writers and Works	750	
> Sorabji, Cornelia	Writers and Works	750	
> Southern Africa: Life Writing Survey	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> Spain: Life Writing: 18th & 19th Centuries	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Spain: Life Writing: 20th Century	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> Spanish America: 15th-18th Century Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Spanish America: 19th-Century Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Spanish America: 20th century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Spanish America: Indigenous/Oral Life Story Traditions	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Sri Lanka/Ceylon: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional
> Traditions and Trends	1000	
> Stendhal	Writers and Works	750	
> Suetonius	Writers and Works	750	
> Sweden: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions and
> Trends	1500	
> Szechnyi, Istvan	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> Thailand/Siam: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> Tocqueville, Alexis de	Writers and Works	750	
> Toller, Ernst	Writers and Works	750	
> Troyat, Henri	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> USA: 18th-century Auto/biography	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> USA: 18th-century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> USA: 19th-century Auto/biography	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> USA: 19th-Century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> USA: 20th-century Auto/biography	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> USA: 20th-century Diaries & Letters	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1000	
> USA: Pioneer and Captivity Writings	National and Regional Traditions
> and Trends	1500	
> 
> Valdes, Hernan	Writers and Works	750	
> Velluti, Donato	Writers and Works	750	
> Vietnam: Survey of Life Writing	National and Regional Traditions and
> Trends	1000	
> Villari, Pasquale	Writers and Works	750	
> 
> War Diaries and Journals	Genres and Forms	1500	
> War Letters	Genres and Forms	1000	
> War Narratives	Genres and Forms	1500	
> Welsh Life Writing: Survey	National and Regional Traditions and
> Trends	1000	
> West and Central Africa, English-speaking: Survey	National and
> Regional Traditions and Trends	1500	
> West and Central Africa, Francophone: Life Writing Survey	National
> and Regional Traditions and Trends	1500	
> Wieland, Christoph Martin	Writers and Works	750	
> Winthrop, John	Writers and Works	750	
> World War II Life Writings	Genres and Forms	1000	
> 
> Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia: Life Writing Survey	National
> and Regional Traditions and Trends	1500	
> 
> Zeromski, Stefan	Writers and Works	750	
> Zorilla y Moral, Jose	Writers and Works	750	
> Zuckmayer, Carl	Writers and Works	750	
> 


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