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The Routledge auto|biography studies reader

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge literature readerPublication details: Routledge 2016 OxonDescription: xxii, 351 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9781138904781
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.06692 R6
Summary: The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader collects together key theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing. Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three sections—Foundations, Transformations, and Futures—each with its own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections, including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity; reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma; agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives; subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and, ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history, among others. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Auto-Biography-Studies-Reader/Chansky-Hipchen/p/book/9781138904781
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Table of Contents:

Part 1: 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
Part 3: Futures
30. Autobiography and the Limits of Moral Criticism / Charles Altieri
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 / 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.

The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader collects together key theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing.
Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three sections—Foundations, Transformations, and Futures—each with its own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections, including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity; reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma; agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives; subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and, ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history, among others.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Auto-Biography-Studies-Reader/Chansky-Hipchen/p/book/9781138904781

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