life-telling

plural life-tellings

1. countableuncountableThe telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.

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

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

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   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.

   2015, D. A. B. Ronald, Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda

   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...'

   2016, S. Greer, Contemporary British Queer Performance