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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication..
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...'
Life-tellings of the moment have become increasingly common and resonant in the Web 2.0 era.
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Life-telling means The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication..
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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.
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