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Auto/Biography in the Americas - Relational Lives (Paperback)
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Auto/Biography in the Americas - Relational Lives (Paperback)
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Auto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives brings together
scholars from disparate geographic regions, cultural perspectives,
linguistic frameworks, and disciplinary backgrounds to explore what
connects narrated lives in the Americas. By interweaving
scholarship on Afro-diasporic subjectivities, gendered narratives,
lives in translation, celebrity auto/biographies, and pedagogical
approaches to teaching auto/biographical narratives, this volume
argues that connections between the contrasting locations of the
Americas may be found in a shared history of diasporic movement
that causes a heightened awareness of the need to belong and to
thereby define the self in relation to others. Read together, the
essays in this collection suggest that identities across the
Americas are constructed with an emphasis on intersubjectivity and
relationality. This transnational approach to reading life writing
beyond the borders of the Americas-pertinent to comparative
American studies and hemispheric studies as well as life writing
and auto/biography studies-also demonstrates an interdisciplinary,
international, and multilingual model for collaborative research in
the humanities and social sciences. The scholars included in this
volume work in the fields of anthropology, sociology, history,
literature, and education, and furthermore, this book marks the
first time that many of these scholars have had their work
translated into and published in English. This book was originally
published as a special issue of a|b: Auto|Biography Studies.
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