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Analyse: Contient un chapitre sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau et l'autobiographie.
Tracing the development of autobiography in French, this book explores the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny, the self as textual construct, the problem of memory and the influence of other texts and…
De/Colonizing the Subject surveys women's autobiographical practices as they have arisen within and confronted the contexts of colonization and oppression. Challenging a universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cult.
Challenging the prevailing universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cultural representations, "De/Colonizing the Subject" frames the newest frontier of critical investigation -- colonial and postcolonial autobiography of the embodies subje…
Oral biography of the African American who was a Communist Party leader in the U.S. in the 1930s and 1940s.
In My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message, one of America's most admired public figures tells the story of his life. Born in Germany in 1929, Amitai Etzioni escaped the Nazi regime and as a teenager dropped out of high school to fight as a commando in the Israeli War of Ind…
Etzioni (currently at George Washington U.) is the founder of communitarianism, a political philosophy adopted, rhetorically at least, by both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. In this memoir, he describes his youth in Palestine, his days studying with philosopher Martin Buber, and h…
Herbstmilch: Lebenserinnerungen e. Bäuerin
by Wimschneider, Anna, Meschkowski, Katrin
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A slice of personal history that chronicles the onset of the Russian Revolution, follows the path of retreat of the White army, and involves us in the chaos, disarray, and horrifying difficulties that best the Whites attempting to escape from their native Russia and establish ne…