Learning from Lilo Linke: Unearthing Her Authentic Autobiographies for an Emancipatory Pedagogy

Abstract

This essay uncovers the once known but now obscure writer Lilo Linke (1906–63), her autobiographies based on her lived experiences, and her work for social justice across the geographies through which she journeyed. The author believes that it is necessary to excavate Linke's life to know what authentic authorship is and to read it as an emancipatory pedagogy of a life lived purposefully. © 2017 The Autobiography Society.