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29 septembre 2016
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Günter Bischof, « Preface », innsbruck university press, ID : 10670/1.7583os
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Writing biographies (life stories) for a long time had been a male hegemonic project — writing the lives of great (white) men. Ever since Plutarch and Sueton composed their vitae of the greats of classical antiquity, to the medieval obsession with the hagiographies of holy men (and a few women) and saints, Vasari’s lives of great Renaissance artists, down to the French encyclopedists, Dr. Johnson and Lytton Strachey, as well as Ranke and Droysen the genre of biographical writing (“the represe...