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From resumes to personal ads, from talk shows to self-help groups,
autobiographical storytelling has become a central theme of
American culture. Visual media offer possible lives through soap
operas, talk shows, and "lifestyle programming", and newspapers and
magazines frame their stories as "personality profiles". This text
explores a variety of occasions during which people consume
personal narratives. This collection aims to expand our
understanding of how we negotiate and commodify identity.
With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and
emerged as a distinct field of study. "Reading Autobiography,"
originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical
introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for
undergraduate and graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide
for students and scholars reading and interpreting autobiographical
texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences, and
visual and performing arts.aThoroughly updated, the second edition
of "Reading Autobiography" is the most complete assessment of life
narrative in its myriad forms. It lays out a sophisticated,
theoretical approach to life writing and the components of
autobiographical acts, including memory, experience, identity,
embodiment, space, and agency. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
explore these components, review the history of life writing and
the foundations of autobiographical subjectivity, and provide a
toolkit for working with twenty-three key concepts. Their survey of
innovative forms of life writing, such as autographics and
installation self-portraiture, charts recent shifts in
autobiographical practice. Especially useful for courses are the
appendices: a glossary covering dozens of distinct genres of life
writing, proposals for group and classroom projects, and an
extensive bibliography.
In the continuing estrangement between the West and the Muslim
Middle East, human rights are becoming increasingly enmeshed with
territorial concerns. Marked by both substance and rhetoric, they
are situated at the heart of many foreign policy decisions and
doctrines of social change, and often serve as a justification for
aggressive actions. In humanitarian and political debates about the
topic, women and children are frequently considered first. Since
the 1990s, human rights have become the most legitimate and
legitimizing juridicial and cultural claim made on a woman's
behalf. But what are the consequences of equating women's rights
with human rights? As the eleven essays in this volume show, the
impact is often contradictory. Bringing together some of the most
respected scholars in the field, including Inderpal Grewal, Leela
Fernandes, Leigh Gilmore, Susan Koshy, Patrice McDermott, and
Sidonie Smith, Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked
ways that women and children are further subjugated when political
or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray
the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviors. Drawn
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities,
arts, and social sciences, Just Advocacy? promises to advance a
more nuanced and politically responsible understanding of human
rights both for scholars and activists. Wendy S. Hesford is an
associate professor of English at Ohio State University. Wendy
Kozol is an associate professor of gender and women's studies at
Oberlin College.
Modern and contemporary women's artistic production of
autobiography frequently occurs at the interfaces of image and
text. The many permutations of words and images in all their modes
of production--photograph, pose, invocation, written narrative,
sculpture, dance, diatribe--create countless possibilities of
expression, and this volume charts some of the ways in which women
artists are seizing these possibilities.
Editors Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson have been at the vanguard of
the study of women's self-representation, and here have collected
leading critics' and scholars' thoughts on artistic fusions of the
visual and autobiographical. Marianne Hirsch, Linda Hutcheon, Linda
Kauffman, Nellie McKay, Marjorie Perloff, Lee Quinby, and the other
contributors offer new insights into the work of such artists as
Laurie Anderson, Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo, Orlan, and Cindy
Sherman. From a painter's diary to a performance artist's
ritualized enactments of kitchen domesticity, the many narratives
of the self arising from these artists' negotiations of the visual
and textual prove to be goldmines for analysis.
Art historians, artists, critics, literary scholars in women's
studies, and anyone interested in the forms and implications of
depicting the self will enjoy this richly illustrated collection.
Sidonie Smith is Professor of English, University of Michigan.
Julia Watson is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies, The
Ohio State University. They also edited "Reading Autobiography: A
Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives" and "Women, Autobiography,
Theory: A Reader,"
The Olympics thrill the world with spectacle and drama. They also
carry a cultural and social significance that goes beyond the
stadium, athletes, and fans. The Games are arenas in which
individual and team athletic achievement intersect with the
politics of national identity in a global context.
"The Olympics at the Millennium" offers groundbreaking essays that
explore the cultural politics of the Games. The contributors
investigate such topics as the emergence of women athletes as
cultural commodities, the orchestrated spectacles of the opening
and closing ceremonies, and the alternative sport culture offered
via the Gay Games. Unforgettable events and decisions are
discussed: Native American athlete Jim Thorpe winning--and
losing--his two gold medals in 1912. Why America was one of the few
countries to actually send Jewish athletes to the "Nazi Olympics."
The disqualification of champion Ewa Klobukowska from competing as
a woman, due to chromosomal testing in 1967.
With the 2000 Sydney Games imminent, several essays address
concerns with which every host country must contend, such as the
threat of terrorism. Highlighting the difficult issues of racism
and nationalism, another article explores the efforts of this
country's aboriginal people to define a role for themselves in the
2000 Games, as they struggle with ongoing discrimination. And with
the world watching, Sydney faces profound pressure to implement a
successful Olympics, as a matter of national pride.
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