The Diary (EPUB) von Batsheva Ben-Amos

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.

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

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.

Elizabeth R. Baer is Research Professor of English and African Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. She is co-editor (with Hester Baer) ofShadows on My Heart and (with Myrna Goldenberg) ofExperience and Expressionand author ofThe Golem Redux andThe Genocidal Gaze.

James Baker is Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex, England, specializing in the history of long eighteenth century Britain and born digital archives and archiving circa 1990 to the present.

Sergio da Silva Barcellos is Post-Doctorate at Universidade Unigranrio, Rio de Janeiro, through the PNPD program of Capes Foundation, from the Ministry of Education of Brazil.

Batsheva Ben-Amosis Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature in the College of Professional and Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and a practicing clinician and has written about Holocaust diaries.

Dan Ben-Amosis Professor of Folklore and Comparative Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous titles, includingSweet Words,Folklore in Context,Jewish Folk Literature, (with Jerome Mintz)In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov, (with Kenneth S. Goldstein)Folklore: Performance and Communication,Folklore Genres, and volumes 1 through 3 ofFolktales of the Jews. He is also the editor of theRafael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology at Wayne State University Press.

Catherine Bogaert is an active member of APA (Association pout l'autobiographie et le patrimoine autobiographic). She curated the exhibition at the Biblioteque Municipale de Lyon dedicated to the diary and is co-author (with Philippe Lejeune) ofHistoire D'une Pratique, Un Journal AÌ Soi.

Michel Braud is Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of Pau and the Pays de l'Adour in France. He is the author ofLa Forme des jours and editor of the anthologyJournaux intimes.

Lena Buford is Director of Finance for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She formerly maintained blogs at the urls garbaj.com and fatdiaries.com, ghosts of which can still be found via the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine."

Suzanne L. Bunkers is Professor Emerita of English at Minnesota State University-Mankato. She is the author ofIn Search of Susanna, co-author (with Frank W. Klein) ofGood Earth, Black Soil, editor ofDiaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern Sampler,A Pioneer Farm Girl,"All Will Yet Be Well": The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1955, andThe Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854-1863, and co-editor (with Cynthia Huff) ofInscribing the Daily.

Kylie Cardell is Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author ofDear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary and the co-editor (with Kate Douglas) ofTelling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth.

Kathryn Carter is Associate Vice President of Teaching and Learning at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She is the editor ofThe Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada: 1830-1996.

Dan Doll is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. He co-edited (with Jessica Munns)Recording and Reordering: Essays on the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Diary and Journal.

James M. Hargett teaches Chinese Language and Literature at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author ofStairway to Heaven:A Journey to the Summit of Mount Emei andRiding the River Home:A Complete and Annotated Translation of Fan Chengda's (1126-1193) Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu).

Kimberly Harrison is Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Florida International University. Her most recent book isThe Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion.

Jochen Hellbeck is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. His most recent book isStalingrad: the City that Defeated the Third Reich.

Desirée Henderson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington. She is the author ofGrief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870.

Steven E. Kagle is Professor Emeritus of English at Illinois State University. He is the author ofAmericanDiary Literature: 1620-1799,Early Nineteenth Century American Diary Literature, andLate Nineteenth Century American Diary Literature.

Kimberly Katz is Professor of Middle East History at Towson University. She is the author ofJordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Spaces andA Young Palestinian's Diary: The Life of Sami 'Amr.

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar is Associate Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Tartu and Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia. She is the coeditor (with Paul Arthur) of a special volume of the journal,Life Writingtitled,Private Lives, Intimate Readings.

Philippe Lejeune is Professor Emeritus of French Literature at Université Paris-Nord. He is the author ofOn Autobiographyand On Diary. He founded the FrenchAssociation pour l'autobiographie (APA the Association for Autobiography), which collects and archives unpublished ordinary autobiographical writings.

Dagmara Meijers-Tröller was an experienced translator from French into English. A member of the ATA, she was educated at Indiana University, Bloomington, Pantheon Sorbonne University, Paris, and London Metropolitan University.

Marilyn Ferris Motz is Emerita Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. She is the author ofTrue Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920and co-edited (withJohn Nachbar)Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century,among other titles.

Elizabeth Podnieks is Professor of English and Communication and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto. She is the author ofDaily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Ninand the critical editionRough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 (2012), among others.

Julie Rak is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her latest book isBoom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market. She is also the coeditor (with Jeremy Popkin) of an English translation of Philippe Lejeune'sbookOn Diary.

Leonard V. Smith is Frederick B. Artz Professor of History at Oberlin College. He is the author ofThe Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War,Between Mutiny and Obedience: The French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I, and co-author ofFrance and the Great War, 1914-1918.

Agnieszka Sobocinska is Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, Australia. She is the author ofVisiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia and coeditor (with David Walker) ofAustralia's Asia: from Yellow Peril to Asian Century.

Françoise Simonet-Tenant is Professor of French Literature at the University of Rouen, France. She is the author ofThe Diary andDiary and Letters (1785-1939) or elective affinities, and editor of aDictionary of Autobiography. Life Writing in the French Language.

Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is co-editor (with Hilde G. Corneliussen) ofDigital Culture, Play, and Idenitity: A World of Warcraft Reader and author ofBlogging andSeeing Ourselves Through Technology. Her blog is at jilltxt.net.

Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies and Director of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies at Nottingham Trent University, England. He is the co-editor (with Peter Hulme) ofThe Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing andThe Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing. He is founding editor of the journalStudies in Travel Writing and he is co-editor (with Peter Hulme) of the seriesRoutledge Research in Travel Writing.