Contains autobiographies written by women who experienced Nazism from different perspectives: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl and Grete Weil. This book examines autobiography as a form of writing at the centre …
This book explores the effects of diaspora upon Black and Jewish consciousness and demonstrates similar histories of marginality and oppression.
This book explores the effects of diaspora upon Black and Jewish consciousness and demonstrates similar histories of marginality and oppression.
"Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders, thinkers, and activists from a variety of religious and cultural traditions." "Each text is read in the light of the autobiographica…
"Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders, thinkers, and activists from a variety of religious and cultural traditions." "Each text is read in the light of the autobiographica…
This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit's account as being civi…
Introduction: the portrait of a voice -- Heterobiography and the utopia of man -- Heterobiography, violence, and the law -- The madness of the documentary and the aesthetics of the body -- The author? in theory, dead: heterobiography and responsibility -- The polluted swamp: het…
Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge-accomplished sociologist and published novelist-explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that simultaneously delves into, reveals, simplifies, and co…
In this important volume, Graziella Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiography - a public act that is also the creation of a private life. Considering autobiographical writings by five women writers from the seventee…
"Between the 17th and 19th centuries autobiographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the pa…
Bundeling van drie autobiografische romans van de zwarte Amerikaanse schrijfster (1928- ).
