life-telling

English

Alternative forms

lifetelling

Noun

life-telling (countable and uncountable, plural life-tellings)

1. The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
   • 2015, D. A. B. Ronald, Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda:

     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.

   • 2016, S. Greer, Contemporary British Queer Performance:

     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...'

   • 2017, Brian Schiff, A. Elizabeth McKim, Sylvie Patron, Life and Narrative:

     Life-tellings of the moment have become increasingly common and resonant in the Web 2.0 era.