Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography – serie
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Recovering Bodies
Illness, Disability and Life-writing
Häftad, 1997
350 kr
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This text focuses on the writing by and about people with illness or disability - and in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness and paralysis - challenging the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, …
American Autobiography
Retrospect and Prospect
Av Paul John Eakin, Paul John Eakin
Häftad, 1991
285 kr
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An assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. Eleven original essays survey what has been done and point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention.
Woman's Civil War
A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
Av Cornelia Peake McDonald, Minrose C. Gwin m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
246 kr
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On the night of March 11, 1862, as the heavy tramp of Confederate marching troops died away in the distance - her husband's regiment among them - Cornelia Peake McDonald began her diary of events in war-torm Winchester, Virginia. MacDonald's story of the Civil War records a personal and distinctly …
Witnessing Slavery
The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives
Häftad, 1994
226 kr
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Frances Foster’s classic study of pre-Civil War American slave autobiography is now issued in an accessible paperback edition. The first book to represent these slave narratives as literary in the complete sense of the word, and the first study to call attention to the significance of gender in the …
Intensely Family
Inheritance of Family Shame and the Autobiographies of Henry James
Av Carol Holly
Häftad, 1995
301 kr
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Documenting the connotations of James's phrase ""intensely family"", this text examines the shame-based psychology bred by his parents and its impact on James's literary career. It draws on a collection of James's unpublished correspondence with his sister-in-law and nephew.
Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
The Chapters from the ""North American Review
Av Mark Twain, Michael J. Kiskis
Häftad, 1990
216 kr
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Single-volume edition of the 25 ""Chapters from My Autobiography"" by Mark Twain, first published in the ""North American Review"" in 1906-7. Includes memories of Twain's wife Livy and daughter Susy as well as anecdotes recalling his boyhood and misadventures.
Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams
Inbunden, 1992
320 kr
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If the letter is an ideal lens through which to view late 19th century American society as it underwent radical change, then Henry Adams is an ideal correspondent. Joanne Jacobson shows how Adams used letters to broker authority, and to construct alliances with correspondents. She demonstrates the …
Zea Mexican Diary
7 September 1926-7 September 1986
Inbunden, 1993
305 kr
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In May of 1986, the poet Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, he began ""helplessly and spasmodically"" to record her passage in a diary. This is a collection of excerpts from that diary and other notes from this …
My History, not Yours
Formation of Mexican American Autobiography
Inbunden, 1994
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A study of the autobiographical writings of Mexican Americans in the century following the US-Mexican War of 1846-1848. Faced with the deliberate obliteration of their culture, these people set down the stories of their lives and communities, as a means of both remembering and resisting.
My History, not Yours
Formation of Mexican American Autobiography
Häftad, 1994
290 kr
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A study of the autobiographical writings of Mexican Americans in the century following the US-Mexican War of 1846-1848. Faced with the deliberate obliteration of their culture, these people set down the stories of their lives and communities, as a means of both remembering and resisting.
American Lives
An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing
Inbunden, 1994
782 kr
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This anthology of American autobiographical writing contains 55 voices from thoughout the nation's history. It includes pieces from canonical and non-canonical writers, slaves and slave-owners, generals and conscientious objectors, scientists, immigrants and native Americans.
American Lives
An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing
Av Robert F. Sayre, Robert F. Sayre
Häftad, 1994
409 kr
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This anthology of American autobiographical writing contains 55 voices from thoughout the nation's history. It includes pieces from canonical and non-canonical writers, slaves and slave-owners, generals and conscientious objectors, scientists, immigrants and native Americans.
My Generation
Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics
Inbunden, 1998
589 kr
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This study of autobiographers from the 1960s demonstrates how they often claimed to speak on behalf of all members of their generation. It argues that the autobiographies are instead constructed with specific agendas in an effort to define the generation's and the writers' own identities.
Before They Could Vote
American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819-1919
Av University of Wisconsin Press, Sidonie Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
901 kr
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The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition - some well known, some forgotten over generations - who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. …
