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Shands, Kerstin
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Shands, K. (2018). Hints Of Impermanence: Ghosts And Orphans In Gail Godwin’S Grief Cottage. Southern Literary Review (February 14)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hints Of Impermanence: Ghosts And Orphans In Gail Godwin’S Grief Cottage
2018 (English)In: Southern Literary Review, no February 14Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34621 (URN)
Available from: 2018-02-15 Created: 2018-02-15 Last updated: 2018-02-15Bibliographically approved
Shands, K. & Ferreira-Meyers, K. (Eds.). (2018). Special Issue on Life Writing. Cuttack, Odisha, India: Ravenshaw University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Special Issue on Life Writing
2018 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The articles brought together in this special issue of Ravenshaw Journal of Literature and Culture on Life Writing are examples of social, therapeutic, and emotional life writing which can be described as ‘healing literature.’ All the contributions in this volume, whether they treat historical life writing or contemporary experiences, offer readers elements of events lived mainly in India, but also in the USA and Europe. The contributions published here are made by researchers from all over the world and propose analyses of narratives that are varied in thematic approach, from pain and illness narratives to narrations of lived religion (Dalit, Buddhism, Bhakti spirituality, Hinduism, Christianity), and in theoretical underpinnings (Foucault, Gilmore, Merleau-Ponty) and genres (journalism, autobiography/autofiction, poetry). The variety of themes, backgrounds, contexts and analytical approaches to texts from India, the USA, Europe and beyond allow both the experienced researcher to conduct in-depth readings and the neophyte a window into the exciting and ever-evolving field of life writing.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cuttack, Odisha, India: Ravenshaw University, 2018. p. 166
Series
Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2231-2773 ; 8
Keywords
Life Writing, Autobiography, Autofiction, Healing Literature, Pain and Illness Narratives, Therapeutic Life Writing, Historical Life Writing, Narrations of Lived Religion, Literatures in English, Regional Literature, Postcolonial Literature
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35715 (URN)
Available from: 2018-06-21 Created: 2018-06-21 Last updated: 2018-07-05Bibliographically approved
Shands, K. (2017). Performing Atonement: Regret, Responsibility, and Redemption in Gail Godwin’s Flora. Southern Literary Review (November 16)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Performing Atonement: Regret, Responsibility, and Redemption in Gail Godwin’s Flora
2017 (English)In: Southern Literary Review, no November 16Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33808 (URN)
Available from: 2017-12-07 Created: 2017-12-07 Last updated: 2017-12-07Bibliographically approved
Shands, K. (2016). Journeys Within: The Contemporary Spiritual Autobiography. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Journeys Within: The Contemporary Spiritual Autobiography
2016 (English)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

An introspective quest narrative that bridges theology and literature in tracing the stories of authors who move from states of confusion, dejection, or loss to insights or epiphanies of spiritual revelation, from conversion to deconversion or from deconversion to conversion, the contemporary spiritual autobiography belongs to an as yet understudied genre of autobiographical writing. Shining an analytic light on individual texts placed within a broad spiritual perspective, this study offers an illumination of the genre of spiritual autobiography itself while relating it to understandings of the role of religion and spirituality in our time.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2016. p. 229
Series
English Studies, ISSN 1651-4165 ; 6
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30660 (URN)978-91-87843-52-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2016-07-21 Created: 2016-07-21 Last updated: 2023-04-04Bibliographically approved
Shands, K., Grillo Mikrut, G., Pattanaik, D. R. & Ferreira-Meyers, K. (Eds.). (2015). Writing the Self: Essays on Autobiography and Autofiction (1ed.). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Writing the Self: Essays on Autobiography and Autofiction
2015 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Recent discussions of autobiographical writing have led to a new terminology (autographies, autre-biographies, nouvelle autobiographie, autofiction, faction, égolittérature, circonfession), and current approaches to autobiography and autofiction suggest that this literary field offers a renewal and even a revolution of life-writing. Exploring autobiographical expression from different perspectives, the thirty essays in this book were presented at an international conference held at Södertörn University in 2014. As the essays in this anthology suggest, literary critics and authors alike are rethinking autobiographical writing and its definitions. Through the variety of papers, this anthology offers a thought-provoking overview of different approaches to autobiography and autofiction.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2015. p. 379 Edition: 1
Series
English Studies, ISSN 1651-4165 ; 5
National Category
General Literature Studies Specific Languages
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-28392 (URN)978-91-87843-21-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2015-09-24 Created: 2015-09-24 Last updated: 2024-12-18Bibliographically approved
Shands, K. & Grillo Mikrut, G. (Eds.). (2014). Living Language, Living Memory: Essays on the Works of Toni Morrison (1ed.). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Living Language, Living Memory: Essays on the Works of Toni Morrison
2014 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In 1993 Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel committee described her work as “characterized by visionary force and poetic import [that] gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.”

Twenty years later, a group of scholars met in Stockholm to commemorate and celebrate Morrison’s award, and just as importantly, to critically engage the wealth of scholarship that has sprung up around Morrison’s work—both the six novels recognized by the Nobel committee and those works of fiction and criticism published in the two decades afterwards.

The essays in this collection implicitly and explicitly take up Morrison’s clarion call to vivify language. They engage her words by elaborating on their meaning, offering readings of her literary texts that highlight their intertextuality, their proliferating conversations with other texts and contexts, and even other languages. In some, Morrison’s words give life to authors no longer with us, in others we are encouraged to resituate her writing in unfamiliar contexts in order to highlight the multiplicity of meanings generated by her work. The essays offer rich testimony to the life-giving properties of Morrison’s language and seek to contribute to the ongoing afterlife of her work by adding to the scholarly conversations animated by her extraordinary literary career.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2014. p. 155 Edition: 1
Series
English Studies, ISSN 1651-4165 ; 4
Keywords
African American, Bible, Black, Emancipation, Ethnicity, Ethics, the Body, Gender, History, Identity, Interpretation, Object, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Slavery, Spirituality, Voice
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24268 (URN)978-91-86069-95-7 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-07-04 Created: 2014-07-04 Last updated: 2023-04-04Bibliographically approved
Shands, K. (2014). [Recension av] Marjo Buitelaar and Hett y Zock (eds.), Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2013 [Review]. The Glass (26), 70-72
Open this publication in new window or tab >>[Recension av] Marjo Buitelaar and Hett y Zock (eds.), Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2013
2014 (English)In: The Glass, ISSN 0269-770X, no 26, p. 70-72Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: , 2014
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27209 (URN)
Available from: 2015-05-04 Created: 2015-05-04 Last updated: 2015-05-06Bibliographically approved
Shands, K. (2014). [Recension av] Wesley A. Kort, Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities, Charlottesville and London, University of Virginia Press, 2012. [Review]. The Glass, Spring(26), 59-61
Open this publication in new window or tab >>[Recension av] Wesley A. Kort, Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities, Charlottesville and London, University of Virginia Press, 2012.
2014 (English)In: The Glass, ISSN 0269-770X, Vol. Spring, no 26, p. 59-61Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: , 2014
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27207 (URN)
Available from: 2015-05-04 Created: 2015-05-04 Last updated: 2015-05-06Bibliographically approved
Shands, K. (2014). Shedding Stones, Reaching Peace: William Schmidt’s Pilgrimage in Walking with Stones.. The Glass, Spring(26), 36-40
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Shedding Stones, Reaching Peace: William Schmidt’s Pilgrimage in Walking with Stones.
2014 (English)In: The Glass, ISSN 0269-770X, Vol. Spring, no 26, p. 36-40Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: , 2014
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26719 (URN)
Available from: 2015-03-20 Created: 2015-03-20 Last updated: 2015-03-20Bibliographically approved
Shands, K. (2013). From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained: Homecoming in Anne Rice’s Called Out of Darkness. In: Wim van Moer, Duysalaksun Celik, John Hochheimer (Ed.), Spirituality in the 21st Century: Journeys Beyond Entrenched Boundaries (pp. 133-140). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained: Homecoming in Anne Rice’s Called Out of Darkness
2013 (English)In: Spirituality in the 21st Century: Journeys Beyond Entrenched Boundaries / [ed] Wim van Moer, Duysalaksun Celik, John Hochheimer, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013, p. 133-140Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26723 (URN)978-1-84888-257-7 (ISBN)
Available from: 2015-03-20 Created: 2015-03-20 Last updated: 2015-04-16Bibliographically approved
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