Autobiographical writing across the disciplines : a reader

Summary:'Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines' reveals for the first time the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, the text brings together 27 essays from scholars from different fields

Print Book, English, 2003

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Publisher:Duke University Press, Durham, 2003

Genre:Aufsatzsammlung

Physical Description:xviii, 487 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9780822332008, 9780822332138, 0822332000, 0822332132

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:52424030

Subjects:

Anglais (Langue) Rhétorique

Aufsatzsammlung

Autobiografie

Autobiographie

Autobiographie Art d'écrire

Autobiographies

Autobiography Authorship

Biographies

Biography

English language Rhetoric

Exposition (Rhetoric)

Interdisciplinarité en éducation

Interdisciplinary approach in education

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Foreword

xiii

Ruth Behar

Self/Discipline: An Introduction

(40)

Diane P. Freedman

Olivia Frey

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription

(27)

David Bleich

Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet

(17)

Carlos L. Dews

Three Readings of the Wife of Bath

(11)

Merrill Black

Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays

(18)

David Richman

Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor

114

(15)

Bonnie Tusmith

Following the Voice of the Draft

129

(9)

Donald M. Murray

Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing

138

(21)

Carla L. Peterson

HISTORY

Inbute to Robert D. Marcus

159

(2)

David Bleich

Journey/man: Hi/s/tory

161

(28)

Robert D. Marcus

RELIGION

From God of the Oppressed

189

(16)

James Cone

PHILOSOPHY

Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss

205

(11)

Laura Duhan Kaplan

Maternal Thinking

216

(17)

Sara Ruddick

AFRICANA STUDIES

Altered States

233

(24)

Kwame Anthony Appiah

ART HISTORY

History of an Encounter

257

(8)

Eunice Lipton

MUSIC

Devouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks

265

(16)

Peter Hamlin

FILM

When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre

281

(11)

Julie Tharp

Filming Point of View

292

(19)

Deborah Lefkowitz

ANTHROPOLOGY

From The Broken Cord

311

(20)

Michael Dorris

Juban America

331

(18)

Ruth Behar

Close Encounters with a CSA: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist

349

(16)

Laura B. Delind

LAW

The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing)

365

(10)

Patricia J. Williams

ENGLISH EDUCATION

My Father/My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status

375

(22)

Brenda Daly

RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGY

Adventures of a Woman in Science

397

(20)

Naomi Weisstein

BIOLOGY

Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist's Life in Biology

417

(18)

Muriel Lederman

MEDICINE

That Disorder: An Introduction

435

(9)

Alice Wexler

A Textbook Pregnancy

444

(11)

Perri Klass

MATH, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SCIENCE EDUCATION

Personal Thinking

455

(12)

Seymour Papert

Selected Bibliography

467

(16)

Contributors

483

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