Series: New Directions in Life Narrative

This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers held indefinitely in offshore detention at Topside Camp, Nauru 2001-5. These artefacts introduce the distinctive and creative forms of resistance produced by asylum seekers in the remote Pacific camps on Nauru and Manus Island, and they expose their experiential histories of radical suffering...

The first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children, this book examines the recent popularity of children’s biographies and how they engage with the biggest issues of our time: environmental change, health crises, education, and children’s personal and political development. Beginning with a literary-historical overview, Children and Biography proceeds to examine 21st-century examples and trends such...

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South, and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. Southern geographies, histories, and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives;...

This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers held indefinitely in offshore detention at Topside Camp, Nauru 2001-5. These artefacts introduce the distinctive and creative forms of resistance produced by asylum seekers in the remote Pacific camps on Nauru and Manus Island, and they expose their experiential histories of radical suffering...