My Autobiography

De Casteljau's autobiography: My time at Citroën

My first contact with Citroën had nothing in common with an entry accompanied by a brass band, so there is absolutely no reason to brag about it. My vague scientific recollection had turned into a faint blur in Algeria, and the advertisement of a job vacancy, for which I was foolhardy enough to apply for, described individuals who resembled everything else which I was not myself. When Monsieur ...

Reflections on my family history, my youth, and my professional career. Autobiography.

Editors’ Introduction The following reminiscence by Gabriele M. Zu Rhein is the seventh autobiography in a series published in the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. These have been solicited from senior members of the neuropathology community who have been noted leaders and contributors to neuroscience and to the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP) and have a hi...

My Evolutionary Trajectory: notes towards an intellectual autobiography

The present essay is an attempt to make a global assessment of the things I have achieved up to now during my academic career. This is an excellent occasion for me to summarize and review a research trajectory that is very wide-ranging and multidisciplinary, and that therefore may seem to lack focus, but that actually has been driven by a constant interest in the self-organization of complexity...

Unhomely Lives: Double Consciousness in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

This essay argues that Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother depicts how the indigenous colonized in Dominica are living ‘unhomely lives’ and that their experience is one of the double consciousness. i.e. when a person see the world through different "lenses." The person does not only have a dual personality but also feels the notion of having different roles in society, such as havi...

An Overview of Research into My Career Chapter — A Dialogical Autobiography