Meaning of life-telling | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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...'”

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

CEFR level