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lifetelling (countable and uncountable, plural lifetellings)

  1. Alternative form of life-telling
    • 1987, Ray González, The Bloomsbury Review - Volumes 7-8:
      American Indian literature, in its modern form as Native American fiction, has long been solidly based in character and lifetelling, in the autobiographical dimensions of the protagonist or his analogous author.
    • 1999, Ann Goetting, Getting Out: Life Stories of Women Who Left Abusive Men, page 19:
      Some scholars of narrative speak of lifetelling as fiction.
    • 2008, Diane Kholos Wysocki, Readings in Social Research Methods, page 187:
      Concerns with accuracy have surrounded the literary form of narrative or lifetelling, including biography, for a couple of decades (Goetting, 1995).