Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland and holds a PhD from the University of London, UK. Her research interests include life writing, memory studies, photography and writers’ autobiographies. Among her publications on life writing is the book Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing.

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• Introduction: Writing the Forgotten.- Part I.Scenes of Forgetting in Life Writing.- 1.Forewords and Forgettings: Introductions and Preambles in Autobiography.- 2.Forgetting and the Writing Moment: Corrections and Family Archives.- 3.Forgetting Online: Self-Representation on Social Network Sites.- Part II.The Past Recovered.- 4.Excavating a Troubled Past: Spanish Memory Texts.- 5.

Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland and holds a PhD from the University of London, UK. Her research interests include life writing, memory studies, photography and writers’ autobiographies. Among her publications on life writing is the book Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing.

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• Introduction: Writing the Forgotten.- Part I.Scenes of Forgetting in Life Writing.- 1.Forewords and Forgettings: Introductions and Preambles in Autobiography.- 2.Forgetting and the Writing Moment: Corrections and Family Archives.- 3.Forgetting Online: Self-Representation on Social Network Sites.- Part II.The Past Recovered.- 4.Excavating a Troubled Past: Spanish Memory Texts.- 5.