The Routledge Auto Biography Studies Reader

Herausgeber: Chansky, Ricia; Hipchen, Emily

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader collects together key theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any critical study of biography, autobiography or life writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9781138904781
• ISBN-10: 1138904783
• Artikelnr.: 43033853

Autorenporträt

Ricia Anne Chansky is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She is the co-editor of the scholarly journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and editor of the forthcoming volumes Auto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives and Auto/Biography across the Americas: Transnational Themes in Life Writing. She also founded the International Auto/Biography Association - Chapter of the Americas. Emily Hipchen is Professor of Writing at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is co-editor of the journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and co-editor of the volume Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Sidonie Smith General Introduction
Ricia Anne Chansky Part 1: Foundations Foundations Introduction
Ricia Anne Chansky 1. Autobiography and the Cultural Moment: A Thematic
Historical
and Bibliographical Introduction
James Olney 2. Conception and Origin of Autobiography
Georg Misch 3. Conditions and Limits of Autobiography
Georges Gusdorf 4. Autobiography as De-facement
Paul de Man 5. The Autobiographical Pact
Philippe Lejeune 6. Design and Lie in Modern American Autobiography
Timothy Dow Adams 7. Is There a Canon of Autobiography?
Eugene Stelzig 8. Reflections of a Reluctant Anthologist
Arnold Krupat 9. Forgotten Voices of Afro-American Autobiography
1865-1930
William L. Andrews 10. Between Lines: Constructing the Political Self
Magdalena Maíz Peña and Luis H. Peña 11. The Impact of Critical Theory on the Study of Autobiography: Marginality
Gender
and Autobiographical Practice
Sidonie Smith 12. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub and into the Narrative
Marlene Kadar 13. Autopathography: Women
Illness
and Life-writing
G. Thomas Couser 14. Biography and Autobiography: Intermixing the Genres
Lois W. Banner 15. Ordering the Family: Genealogy as Autobiographical Pedigree
Julia Watson Part 2: Transformations Transformations Introduction
Ricia Anne Chansky 16. Kathie Lee Gifford and the Commodification of Autobiography
Martin Danahay 17. Transforming the Tale: The Auto/body/ographies of Nancy Mairs
Susannah B. Mintz 18. Memorializing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing in Tongues Untied and Black Is Black Ain't
Harvey Young 19. Telling Tales: Brandon Teena
Billy Tipton
and Transgender Biography
Jack/Judith Halberstam 20. Limit-Cases: Trauma
Self-Representation
and the Jurisdictions of Identity
Leigh Gilmore 21. Authoring Ethnicized Subjects: Rigoberta Menchú and the Performative Production of the Subaltern Self
Arturo Arias 22. Recasting Indigenous Lives along the Lines of Western Desire: Editing
Autobiography
and the Colonizing Project
Alison Ravenscroft 23. Constructing Female Subjects in the Archive: A Reading of Three Versions of One Woman's Subjectivity
Helen M. Buss 24. Out of Place: Extraterritorial Existence and Autobiography
Alfred Hornung 25. The Incomplete Return
Isabelle de Courtivron 26. Letters as/not a Genre
Margaretta Jolly and Liz Stanley 27. Are Memoirs Autobiography? A Consideration of Genre and Public Identity
Julie Rak 28. Autographics: The Seeing "I" of the Comics
Gillian Whitlock 29. What Are We Reading When We Read Autobiography?
Paul John Eakin 30. Autobiography and the Limits of Moral Criticism
Charles Altieri Part 3: Futures Futures Introduction
Ricia Anne Chansky 31. Family Matters
Henry Louis Gates
Jr. 32. Living Autoethnography: Connecting Life and Research - Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
Kathy-Ann C. Hernandez
and Heewon Chang 33. Cultural Ecology
Literature
and Life Writing
Hubert Zapf 34. His Master's Voice: Animalographies
Life Writing
and the Posthuman
Cynthia Huff and Joel Haefner 35. Engendering an Alternative Approach to Otherness in African Women's Autobiography
Folasade Hunsu 36. Subjects in the Margins
Leonor Arfuch 37. Memoirs of Return: Saidiya Hartman
Eva Hoffman
and Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K. Miller 38. The Generation of Postmemory
Marianne Hirsch 39. Comics Form and Narrating Lives
Hillary Chute 40. Digital Biography: Capturing Lives Online
Paul Longley Arthur 41. Celebrity Bio Blogs: Hagiography
Pathography
and Perez Hilton
Elizabeth Podnieks 42. Cyberrace
Lisa Nakamura 43. Faith
Doubt
and Textual Identity
Susanna Egan 44. Making the Case for Self-narration Against Autofiction
Arnaud Schmitt 45. Genetic Studies of Life Writing
Philippe Lejeune