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Autobiographical writing across the disciplines : a reader

'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
Duke University Press, Durham, 2003
Aufsatzsammlung
xviii, 487 pages ; 25 cm
9780822332008, 9780822332138, 0822332000, 0822332132
52424030
Acknowledgmentsix
Forewordxiii
Ruth Behar
Self/Discipline: An Introduction
1(40)
Diane P. Freedman
Olivia Frey
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription
41(27)
David Bleich
Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet
68(17)
Carlos L. Dews
Three Readings of the Wife of Bath
85(11)
Merrill Black
Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays
96(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 Bibliography467(16)
Contributors483
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