Memoirs as Mirrors of Experiential Knowledge: Renegotiating Affect in Narrative-Deontology Approaches to Schizophrenia Self-Stories

The madwoman in the deportation train: Remembering and narrating individual and collective memory in Night, Fatelessness, and Still Alive

Experiential Memory: The Underlying Mechanism of Jewish Commemoration and Its Application in Education for Holocaust Remembrance

This article introduces “experiential memory” as a new theoretical construct to explain a paradox in Israeli remembrance culture: why ancient Jewish days of commemoration (Passover, Tisha B’Av, Purim, Chanukah) retain their power after millennia, while Israel’s national memorial days—especially Holocaust Remembrance Da...

Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human

This study examines the intermedial and generic transformation of Osamu Dazai’s novel No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku, 1948) in Junji Ito’s manga adaptation. It addresses the question of which narrative and generic interventions restructure an existential and confessional written work as a visual, sequential horror na...

Rebirth as Redemptive Spectrality: Hauntological Narratives in Li Ang’s Paranormal Trilogy

Li Ang’s paranormal trilogy— Visible Ghosts , Possession , and The River Woman Beyond —employs ghostly narratives to stage the intersection of historical trauma, gendered violence, and ethical reckoning. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s hauntology and Judith Butler’s theory of grievability, this article argues th...

Not So Stories

Three short autobiographical stories introduce a host of characters (human and beyond), places, and objects that bridge worlds – worlds of fact and fiction, past and present, Africa and Europe. The three autobiographical reflections, How the Outside Got In, Of Migrants and Music, and New Transvaal Stories, serve as poi...

From Illness Memoirs to Documentary: Expanding the Boundaries of Illness Narratives through My Beautiful Broken Brain

Illness Memoirs and Autobiographies, holding self-narrated illness journey are two forms that played a significant role in transition of Illness Narratives and Medical Humanities from doctor centred to patient centred. Another popular and effective medium that helps in dissemination of illness experiences is Cinema (mo...