Auto/Biography across the Americas

Transnational Themes in Life Writing
Herausgeber: Chansky, Ricia A

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Produktbeschreibung

Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This volume brings together essays by scholars from diverse national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary backgrounds to trace these transnational motifs in life writing across the Americas. It advances discourse in auto/biography studies, life writing, and identity studies by locating transnational themes in narratives of the Americas and placing them in international and interdisciplinary conversations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138959972
• ISBN-10: 1138959979
• Artikelnr.: 43673422

Autorenporträt

Ricia Anne Chansky is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She is editor of the journal Auto/Biography Studies and co-editor of The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading beyond Boundaries
Chapter One: Timescapes, Backpacks, Networks
Chapter Two: Art, Identity, and Narration
Chapter Three: A Transnational Autobiographical Pact
Chapter Four: Between Nations, Between Selves
Chapter Five: Talking beyond Borders
Chapter Six: The Mediated Self in the Contested Domain of Caribbean
Autobiography
Chapter Seven: Mapping Out a Treacherous Terrain
Chapter Eight: Decolonial Translation in Embodied Auto/Biographical
Indigenous Performance
Chapter Nine: "See how I talk about the slavemaster"
Chapter Ten: Class and Class Awareness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl
Chapter Eleven: The Paradoxical Demand for Realism
Chapter Twelve: "Forward!" National Identity, Animalographies, and the
Ethics of Representation in the Posthuman Imaginary
Contributors
Index