I Foresee My Life is a study of the ritual performances of the Kayabi, a Brazilian indigenous people, during the 1990s. Kayabi rituals are distinct in that they center on the autobiographical narratives of living people. Suzanne Oakdale discusses these autobiographical performan…
Life Writings/Narratives and studies in gender have been posing critical challenges to fetishizing the manner of canon formations and curriculum propriety. This book engages with these and other challenges turning our customary gaze towards women especially marginal, enabling us…
Here, Lee, author of Beat Generation Writers, takes a look at the rich black literary tradition, encompassing the cinema of Spike Lee, Bessie Smith's blues, Romare Bearsden's canvases, the photography of Gordon Parks, and many more.
"In The Experience of Modernity: Chinese Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century, Janet Ng Examines the place of autobiography in the China of the May Fourth Era (1917-40)." "The May Fourth Era began as a movement to make classical literary language accessible to the common…
