Materialitäten des Diaristischen

Autor(en)

Li Gerhalter

Abstrakt

This article discusses the materials on which auto/biographical texts were written. Focusing on girls’ and women’s diaries of the twentie th century, the author argues for a broad understanding on which writing materials might contain diary records. An analysis of ‘schoolgirl diaries’, calendars , household books, and ‘mothers’ diaries’ shows the complex relationships between individual auto/biographical practices, which could change during the course of an author’s life, and historical styles, conventions, gift-giving cultures and socio-political interests. The paper demonstrates, among other things, that the idea of girls mainly using lockable diaries is nothing more than a cliché. Looking at different levels of diary-related materialities (writing style, paper, enclosures and cover sheets) and the places where they were kept, this paper also explores the aspects of ‘secrecy’ and ‘self-re/presentation’ in a diary context. Taking the appearances of archived records as a starting point, the perspective finally broadens to include those transformations that egodocuments undergo on their way to being researched or edited.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geschichte

Journal

L'Homme: Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft

Band

24 Jg.

Seiten

53–71

Anzahl der Seiten

19

ISSN

1016-362X

Publikationsdatum

12-2013

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601008 Geschichtswissenschaft

Schlagwörter

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