"life-telling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015, D. A. B. Ronald, Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda",
          "text": "Leading characters, by contrast, were, according to convention, the sum of their Remarkable Transactions which required that, to trump traditional histories, their life-telling must be not only authentic but also original and human.",
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          "ref": "2016, S. Greer, Contemporary British Queer Performance",
          "text": "Stephen Maddison has argued that this emergent tradition of 'gay life-telling' in lesbian gay and queer sub-cultural life is particularly significant, as in the development of second-wave feminism, because it has helped destabilise 'the master-narrative of sexuality which inscribes silence as naturalized heterosexuality...'",
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          "ref": "2017, Brian Schiff, A. Elizabeth McKim, Sylvie Patron, Life and Narrative",
          "text": "Life-tellings of the moment have become increasingly common and resonant in the Web 2.0 era.",
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        "The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication."
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          "ref": "2015, D. A. B. Ronald, Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "Stephen Maddison has argued that this emergent tradition of 'gay life-telling' in lesbian gay and queer sub-cultural life is particularly significant, as in the development of second-wave feminism, because it has helped destabilise 'the master-narrative of sexuality which inscribes silence as naturalized heterosexuality...'",
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          "text": "Life-tellings of the moment have become increasingly common and resonant in the Web 2.0 era.",
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