Life-telling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Life-telling is a noun meaning The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
Meaning
The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
Example Sentences
Life-tellings of the moment have become increasingly common and resonant in the Web 2.0 era.
Leading characters, by contrast, were, according to convention, the sum of their Remarkable Transactions which required that, to trump traditional histories, their life-telling must be not only authentic but also original and human.
Stephen Maddison has argued that this emergent tradition of 'gay life-telling' in lesbian gay and queer sub-cultural life is particularly significant, as in the development of second-wave feminism, because it has helped destabilise 'the master-narrative of sexuality which inscribes silence as naturalized heterosexuality...'
Word Forms
- life-tellings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include memoir, self-story, as-told-to, self-narrative, times, testimony.
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