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Designed as a contribution to the field of transnational
comparative American studies, this book focuses on gender in life
writing that exceeds the boundaries of traditional genres. The
contributors engage with authors who bend genres to speak gender as
it manifests in multiple shapes in different geographic locations
across the Americas, and especially as it intersects with race and
migration, war and colonialism, illness and ageing. In addition to
supplying new insights into the established sites of
auto/biographical production such as memoir, archive, and oral
history, the book explores experimental mixed forms such as
selfies, auto-theory, auto/bio comics, and autobiogeography. By
combining this multi-genre and multi-media perspective with a
multi-generational approach to life writing, the book showcases a
spectrum of established and emerging critical voices, many of whom
have been influenced by the work of Marlene Kadar, the Canadian
life writing scholar whose interventions have expanded the feminist
and interdisciplinary methods of life writing studies. Tracing the
intergenerational relay of ideas, this collection fosters dialogue
across the western hemisphere, and will be useful to those studying
life writing exchanges between North America, Latin America, and
the Caribbean. This book was originally published as a special
issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
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.
The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader collects together key
theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any
critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing.
Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general
introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three
sections-Foundations, Transformations, and Futures-each with its
own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections,
including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity;
reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma;
agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives;
subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and,
ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of
methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical
study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history,
among others.
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.
The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader collects together key
theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any
critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing.
Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general
introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three
sections-Foundations, Transformations, and Futures-each with its
own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections,
including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity;
reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma;
agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives;
subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and,
ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of
methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical
study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history,
among others.
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