Life Writing and Translation

This book aims to explore the expansive field of life writing, both as a practice and genre of literature, and its intersections with translation. It will serve as a rich resource for university students, researchers, and academics of literature, history, sociology, cultural studies, translation studies, and comparative studies.

Mukul Chaturvedi is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. Her doctoral research is on women's testimonial literature from, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her areas of interest include postcolonial literatures, autobiography studies, life writing, testimonies from conflict zones, gender and/in translation. She has recently published an edited volume titled, Life Writing, Representation, and Identity: Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2024) and is currently working on the second volume of life writing.