Description |
xiii, 129 pages ; 26 cm |
Contents |
Introduction. Transculturing auto/biography: forms of life writing / Rosalía Baena-- Shifting forms of sovereignty: immigrant parents and ethnic autobiographers / William Boelhower-- The hungry self: the politics of food in Italian American women's autobiography / Alison D. Goeller-- Painted selves: autography in the art of South Asian American women / Gita Rajan-- A graphic self: comics as autobiography in Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" / Rocío G. Davis-- "Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter": theory and practice of life writing in Maya Deren's early films / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung-- In praise of art and literature: intertextuality, translations and migrations of knowledge in Anna Jameson's travel writings / Rita Monticelli-- Autobiographical story cycles as a vehicle for enlightenment: Fredelle Bruser Maynard's "Raisins and almonds" and "The tree of life" / Danielle Schaub-- Paradigms of Canadian literary biography: who will write our history? / Ana Beatriz Delgado-- Index |
Notes |
"Previously published as a special issue of Prose Studies." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Autobiography -- Authorship.
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Biography as a literary form.
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Author |
Baena, Rosalía.
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ISBN |
0415400430 |
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9780415400435 |
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