The Diary

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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.

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

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Reference
• General officer
• Cultural studies
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 10 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253046956
• Langue: English

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The Diary
THE DIARY
The Epic of Everyday Life
EDITED BY BATSHEVA BEN-AMOS AND DAN BEN-AMOS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Title: The diary : the epic of everyday life / edited by Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos ;
Description: Revised edition. | Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CONTENTS
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 from French 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 from French by Dagmara Meijers-Troller
6 | The American Diary Canon / Steven E. Kagle
7 | Personal Writings and the Quest for National Identity in Brazil / Sergio da Silva Barcellos
Part III: The Transformation of the Manuscript
8 | The Complicated Publication History of the Diaries of Anne Frank / Suzanne L. Bunkers
9 | Digitized Diary Archives / Desir e 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 / Fran oise Simonet-Tenant, translated from French 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 R. Baer
19 | Diary and Narrative: French Soldiers and 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-K osaar
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
Acknowledgments
This volume was consolidated through many years of teaching and research on the diary at the University of Pennsylvania in the Departments of History, English, Comparative Literature, and the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. Batsheva Ben-Amos realized there was a necessity for a volume such as this in the rich and growing field of diary scholarship, from her contact with students and other scholars. We are grateful to all the authors who entrusted us with their most valuable essays that contribute to the breadth and depth of this volume and demonstrate the significance of the diary and its study to research in the humanities and social studies.
We thank Philippe Lejeune, who offered valuable support and suggestions. And we thank Suzanne L. Bunkers, who helped with advice at the initial stages of the volume s preparation. Dagmara Meijers-Troller translated three French articles into English. Sadly, we learned of her passing in 2018. Thanks go to Janice Meyerson for her editorial assistance. Special thanks go to the archivists of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum-Ronald Coleman, Vincent Slatt, and Megan Lewis-for the tireless help they provided Batsheva Ben-Amos in her research on the Holocaust diaries. Very valuable was the technical assistance of our son Itamar Ben-Amos, who helped us navigate the maze of the digital world. The critical comments of the anonymous peer reviewers helped us shape the submitted manuscript into the current volume. Finally, we would like to note our gratitude to Janice E. Frisch from Indiana University Press, who accompanied the transformation of this anthology of essays from manuscript into a published volume with wise, insightful, and perceptive guidance.
The Diary
Introduction
Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos
ON JANUARY 4, 2018, THE New York Times reported the discovery of a diary written in the Soviet gulag in Siberia in 1941-42. 1 The palm-size 115-page diary lay in obscurity for nearly seventy years. It belonged to Olga M. Ranitskaya, a camp weather station worker. She combined whimsical drawings with rhyming couplets, portraying the physical and emotional hardships of a spirited stick figure, her alter ego. In writing her diary, Ms. Ranitskaya risked her life: anyone caught pen in hand was summarily executed in the Soviet gulag.
Individuals have put their lives into words for many different reasons. But the forces that compel these individuals to script their daily life and write down their personal acts and emotions are irresistible and even lead some diarists to disregard any danger. Under the cover of the mundane, they record internal and external changes and conflicts in their own lives and in their societies, protecting these moments from the destructive vagaries of memory. These recorded moments could be periods of transition (such as into adolescence), change in relationships, relocation for pleasure or under pressure, illness, oppression or duress in combat, and captivity or exhilarating freedom. For many the compulsion to write is uncontrollable, and often the writing itself breaks literary and social conventions or, as in the case of Olga M. Ranitskaya, risks the diarist s own life.
Diary discovery and analysis are part of an interdisciplinary field of research. New diaries, as well as critical studies of earlier texts, frequently appear in print, and in the past fifty years, diary studies have come into their own. Scholarship has honed critical concepts, standards, and theories. Diarists have responded to modern technologies, posting intimate entries on the internet, and archived diaries are now available online. Theories and technologies have revitalized diary research.
The goal of this volume is to bring together some of the best of this research and offer an account of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. Our purpose is to synthesize decades of interdisciplinary study in order to further future research on the diary as both a literary form and a medium of historical documentation. Our orientation is global, aiming to address fundamental diary categories and theoretical and methodological issues that recent diary research has consolidated.
The Diary as a Genre
In any cultural or literary tradition, the diary stands out as a unique narrative genre, linguistically designated with its own term. In English, we use the term diary ; the modern Chinese use riji ; the French, journal intime ; and the Germans, Tagebuch . It is diario in Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish and nikki in Japanese. The diary is an ethnic genre, empirical and cultural, rather than an analytical category. 2 In the first essay of this volume, Philippe Lejeune and Catherine Bogaert offer a definitio