life-telling
life-telling noun: the telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
Noun
life-telling (countable and uncountable, plural life-tellings)
- The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
- 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...2016, S. Greer, Contemporary British Queer Performance
Forms of life-telling
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Questions about life-telling
- What does life-telling mean?
- Life-telling means the telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
- What part of speech is life-telling?
- Life-telling is a noun.
- What is the plural of life-telling?
- The plural of life-telling is life-tellings.
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