Marlene Kadar’s Life Writing: Feminist Theory Outside the Lines
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Abstract
In 1992, as part of her landmark collection Essays on Life Writing: From Genre to Critical \nPractice, Marlene Kadar published the essay "Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub \nand Into the Narrative." When taken with her introduction to the volume, Kadar created what \nshould be a touchstone for everyone working in the field of life writing today. Kadar was the \nfirst critic to frame life writing as a way to name a genre and a critical practice together, but \nmajor works in life writing criticism focus only on life writing as a more capacious term for \nautobiographical and biographical representation, neglecting the ethics of criticism Kadar \nsought to bring to the study of the area and not crediting Kadar for the first feminist use of \nthe term. I propose to remedy this gap in the life writing critical literature by reading Kadar's two early essays alongside her essay "The Devouring. Traces of Roma in the Holocaust: No Tattoo, Sterilized Body, Gypsy Girl" to see how Kadar thinks about life writing as a method that is deeply socially responsible to the texts, and to the traces of life that can be found in \nephemeral documents.
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