Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography – serie
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Zea Mexican Diary
7 September 1926-7 September 1986
Häftad, 2003
218 kr
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In this memoir, West Indian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite conjures his wife, Doris, and tells of her death from cancer.
Who Am I?
An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
Av Yi-fu Tuan
Häftad, 2009
218 kr
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Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and …
Rosa
The Life of an Italian Immigrant
Häftad, 1999
234 kr
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This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, as told to Marie Hall Ets, who was a friend of Rosa. She tells of her life in a village, her marriage at 16, her unwilling migration to join her husband in Missouri, the unassisted birth of her child, and her life as an independent woman living in Chicago.
Illumination and Night Glare
The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Häftad, 2001
264 kr
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More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare , will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation—the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye , and The Ballad of …
Diaries of Girls and Women
A Midwestern American Sampler
Av Suzanne L. Bunkers, Suzanne L. Bunkers
Häftad, 2001
414 kr
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Diaries of schoolgirls, newlywed wives, mothers, teachers, nurses, elderly women, nuns, travelers Diaries of Girls and Women captures and preserves the diverse lives of forty-seven girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999. A compelling work of living …
Autobiographical Documentary in America
Av Jim Lane
Häftad, 2002
344 kr
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Since the late 1960s, American film and video makers of all stripes have been fascinated with themes of self and identity. Though the documentary form is most often used to capture the lives of others, Jim Lane turns his lens on those media makers who document their own lives, their own identities. …
Text Is Myself
Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe
Av Miriam Fuchs, William L. Andrews
Häftad, 2003
294 kr
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Queen Lili'uokalani, the last monarch of Hawai'i, was forced to abdicate and her homeland was annexed. American poet H.D. wrote through the London blitz. Italian novelist and art critic Anna Banti lost the manuscript of her novel about Artemisia Gentileschi but survived the war's devastation to …
Blind African Slave
Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
Häftad, 2005
234 kr
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Born in West Africa around 1742, Jeffrey Brace was captured by slave traders at sixteen and shipped to Barbados, where he was sold. After fighting as an enslaved sailor in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to Connecticut and sold again. Brace later enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of …
Secret of M. Dulong
A Memoir
Av Colette Inez
Inbunden, 2005
369 kr
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A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan …
Autobiography and Decolonization
Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-state
Inbunden, 2008
727 kr
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Philip Holden reveals deeply gendered connections between the writing of individual lives and of the narratives of nations emerging from colonialism. ""Autobiography and Decolonization"" is the first book to give serious academic attention to autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of …
Four Russian Serf Narratives
Av John MacKay
Häftad, 2009
344 kr
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Although millions of Russians lived as serfs until the middle of the nineteenth century, little is known about their lives. Identifying and documenting the conditions of Russian serfs has proven difficult because the Russian state discouraged literacy among the serfs and censored public expressions …
Identity Technologies
Constructing the Self Online
Häftad, 2014
414 kr
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Identity Technologies is a substantial contribution to the fields of autobiography studies, digital studies, and new media studies, exploring the many new modes of self-expression and self-fashioning that have arisen in conjunction with Web 2.0, social networking, and the increasing saturation of …
Masked
The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
Inbunden, 2014
354 kr
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A brave British widow goes to Siam and-by dint of her principled and indomitable character-inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a …
We Shall Bear Witness
Life Narratives and Human Rights
Av Meg Jensen, Margaretta Jolly
Häftad, 2014
384 kr
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Personal testimonies are the life force of human rights work, and rights claims have brought profound power to the practice of life writing. This volume explores the connections and conversations between human rights and life writing through a dazzling, international collection of essays by …
Dear World
Contemporary Uses of the Diary
Häftad, 2014
449 kr
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Where has the personal diary gone - and what forms has it taken - in the digital age? From the diary spaces of reality television and the how-to diary and its audience of self-helpers, in the emerging genre of the graphic diary or the online diaries of sex bloggers, in the published diaries of war …
Words of Witness
Black Women's Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era
Häftad, 2016
335 kr
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A literary and political genealogy of the last half-century, Words of Witness explores black feminist autobiographical narratives in the context of activism and history since the landmark 1954 segregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. Angela A. Ards examines how activist writers, especially …
Mysterious Life and Calling
From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina
Av Charlotte S. Riley, Crystal J. Lucky
Häftad, 2016
294 kr
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A rare discovery, A Mysterious Life and Calling is the autobiography of Charlotte Levy Riley, who was born into slavery but after emancipation achieved a fulfilling career as a preacher in the South Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, schoolteacher, and civil servant. …
Reading African American Autobiography
Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism
Av Eric D. LaMore, Eric D. Lamore
Inbunden, 2017
912 kr
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This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the …
American Autobiography After 9/11
Av Megan Brown
Inbunden, 2017
857 kr
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In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They cope with financial crises, encounter difference, or confront norms of identity. Megan Brown contends that such best sellers as Cheryl Strayed’s …
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs
The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911
Inbunden, 2017
792 kr
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Louisa Jacobs was the daughter of Harriet Jacobs, author of the famous autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. That work included a heartbreaking account of Harriet parting with six-year-old Louisa, taken away to the North by her white father. Now, rediscovered letters reveal the lives …
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs
The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911
Häftad, 2020
237 kr
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Harriet Jacobs's famous autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa, who had been taken away to the North by her white father. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the …
Such Anxious Hours
Wisconsin Women's Voices from the Civil War
Inbunden, 2020
430 kr
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Letters from soldiers to their families often provide prominent narratives of the Civil War. But what about the messages from the women who maintained homes and farmsteads alone, all while providing significant emotional support to their loved ones at the front? The letters and diaries of these …
Divided States
Unraveling National Identities in the Twenty-First Century
Av Laura J. Beard, Ricia Anne Chansky
Inbunden, 2023
531 kr
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What is an “American” identity? The tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States since its inception. In The Divided States, leading scholars and critics argue that the US is, and has always been, a site where multiple national …
As Told by Herself
Women's Childhood Autobiography, 1845-1969
Inbunden, 2022
972 kr
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As Told by Herself offers the first systematic study of women's autobiographical writing about childhood. More than 175 works—primarily from English-speaking countries and France, as well as other European countries—are presented here in historical sequence, allowing Lorna Martens to discern and …
Women, Autobiography, Theory
A Reader
Av Sidonie A. Smith, Julia Watson
Inbunden, 1998
849 kr
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This is a guide to the field of women's autobiography. The 39 essays explore narratives across the centuries, including testimonies, diaries, memoirs, letters, trauma accounts, prison narratives, coming out stories, coming of age stories and spiritual autobiographies.
Illumination and Night Glare
The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Inbunden, 1999
332 kr
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This is the autobiography of Carson McCullers, published more than 30 years after it was written. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation - the author of "The Member of the Wedding", "Reflections in a Golden Eye" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" - died of a stroke at the age of …
Diaries of Girls and Women
A Midwestern American Sampler
Av Suzanne L. Bunkers, Suzanne L. Bunkers
Inbunden, 2001
724 kr
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Diaries of schoolgirls, newlywed wives, mothers, teachers, nurses, elderly women, nuns, travelers Diaries of Girls and Women captures and preserves the diverse lives of forty-seven girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999. A compelling work of living …
How I Became a Human Being
A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence
Av Mark O'Brien
Inbunden, 2003
397 kr
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In September 1955, six-year-old Mark O'Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a 30-day coma to find himself in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life. This volume is O'Brien's account of his struggles to lead an independent life …
