The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats, including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction / Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos
Part I: Diary Theories
1. The Practice of Writing a Diary / Philippe Lejeune and Catherine Bogaert, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller
2. Feminist Interpretations of the Diary / Kathryn Carter
3. The Diary Among Other Forms of Life Writing / Julie Rak
Part II: The Creation of a Diary Canon
4. British Diary Canon Formation / Dan Doll
5. The Diary in France and French-Speaking Countries / Michel Braud, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller
6. The American Diary Canon / Steven E. Kagle
7. Personal Writings and the Quest of National Identity in Brazil / Sergio da Silva Barcellos
Part III: The Transformation of the Manuscript
8. The Difficult Publication History of the Diaries of Anne Frank / Suzanne L. Bunkers
9. Digitized Diary Archives / Desirée Henderson
Part IV: The Travel Diary
10. British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary / Tim Youngs
11. Travel Diaries in Australia / Agnieszka Sobocinska
12. Travel Diaries in Imperial China / James M. Hargett
Part V: The Private Diary
13. The Contemporary Personal Diary in France / Françoise Simonet-Tenant, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller
14. Writing the Self, Writing History in Palestine / Kimberly Katz
15. Sharing Secrets in Nineteenth-Century America / Marilyn Ferris Motz
16. The Literary Author as Diarist / Elizabeth Podnieks
Part VI: The Diary in Political Conflict
17. The American Civil War: Confederate Women’s Diaries / Kimberly Harrison
18. The Archive as a Diary of Resistance: Hendrik Witbooi, Nama Revolutionary, 1884-1905 / Elizabeth Baer
19. Diary and Narrative: French Soldiers in World War I / Leonard V. Smith
20. The Stalin-Era Diary / Jochen Hellbeck
21. On Holocaust Diaries / Batsheva Ben-Amos
22. Estonian Women’s Deportation Diaries / Leena Kurvet-Kosaar
Part VII: Online Diaries
23. From Puritans to Fitbit: Self-Improvement, Self-Tracking, and How to Keep a Diary / Kylie Cardell
24. Online Diaries and Blogs / Jill Walker-Rettberg
25. A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community / Lena Buford
26. Geocities and Diaries on the Early Web / James Baker
Index
Circa l’autore
Batsheva Ben-Amos is Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature in the College of Professional and Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a practicing clinician and has written about Holocaust diaries. Dan Ben-Amos is Professor of Folklore and Comparative Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of numerous titles, including Sweet Words, Folklore in Context, Jewish Folk Literature, ( in Hebrew and Russian), and a translator of In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov (with Jerome R.Mintz). He is editor of Folklore Genres, Folktales of the Jews (volumes 1–3 ), Folklore: Performance and Communication (with Kenneth S. Goldstein) and of Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity (with Liliane Weissberg).
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