Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
09 Aug 2011 at 19:56
Julija Šukys
Academia, Addiction, Autobiography, Catholicism, Children, Christianity, CNF Conversations, Conferences and Symposia, Creative Nonfiction, Daiva Markelis, Domesticity, Eastern Europe, Editing, Exile, Friendship, Language and Multilingualism, Lithuania, Louise DeSalvo, Memoir, Mothering, Publishing, Siberia, Uncategorized, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
Daiva Markelis, White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American Life. University of Chicago Press, 2010. * Her parents never really explained what a D.P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that “displaced person” was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chicago suburb [...]
04 May 2011 at 11:19
Julija Šukys
Academia, Creative Nonfiction, Domesticity, Louise DeSalvo, Memoir, Mothering, Personal Essays, Uncategorized, Virginia Woolf, Writing
One of my first Life-blood posts was a short review of Louise DeSalvo’s essay, “A Portrait of the Puttana as a Middle-Aged Woolf Scholar.” I came across that piece in my search for some frank and honest discussion by women about mothering and writing. My son was still very little (around two), and I was [...]
07 May 2010 at 13:38
Julija Šukys
Domesticity, Life-blood, Louise DeSalvo, Mothering, Virginia Woolf, Writing
Louise DeSalvo, “A Portrait of the Puttana as a Middle-Aged Woolf Scholar.” Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write About Their Work on Women (Routledge, 1993), 35-53. I love this essay for many reasons. 1) It’s a seriously learned text written in a light and readable first-person voice. 2) It tells a story [...]
