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De/colonizing the Subject

The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography

By: Sidonie Smith

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De/colonizing the Subject

The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography

By: Sidonie Smith

De/Colonizing the Subject surveys womenOCOs 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

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0816684030

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Reading Autobiography

A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

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Reading Autobiography

A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

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. Thoroughly 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.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452931089

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Interfaces

Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

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Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

Charts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories

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University of Michigan Press

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0472068148

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9780472068142

Manifesto for the Humanities

Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times

By: Sidonie Ann Smith

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Manifesto for the Humanities

Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times

By: Sidonie Ann Smith

After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform. Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanities, Smith advocates for a 21st century doctoral education responsive to the changing ecology of humanistic scholarship and teaching. She elaborates a more expansive conceptualization of coursework and dissertation, a more robust, engaged public humanities, and a more diverse, collaborative, and networked sociality.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472121715

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9780472121717

Getting a Life

Everyday Uses of Autobiography

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

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Getting a Life

Everyday Uses of Autobiography

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

Various encounters helped us transform what was originally just a response to a trendy 1980s phrase--Get A life!--into the pointed yet heterogeneous engagement with everyday practices that we believe this collection represents. Papers submitted for the session on the everyday uses of autobiography at the Modern Language Association's convention in 1992 enabled us to connect with scholars around the country.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816624909

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9780816624904

Reading Autobiography

A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

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A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition

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Interfaces

Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

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Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance

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Charts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories

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Reading Autobiography Now

An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

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Reading Autobiography Now

An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative The boom in autobiographical narratives continues apace. It now encompasses a global spectrum of texts and practices in such media as graphic memoir, auto-photography, performance and plastic arts, film and video, and online platforms. Reading Autobiography Now offers both a critical engagement with life narrative in historical perspective and a theoretical framework for interpreting texts and practices in this wide-ranging field. Hailed upon its initial publication as “the Whole Earth Catalog of autobiography studies,” this essential book has been updated, reorganized, and expanded in scope to serve as an accessible and contemporary guide for scholars, students, and practitioners. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson explore definitions of life narrative, probe issues of subjectivity, and outline salient features of autobiographical acts and practices. In this updated edition, they address emergent topics such as autotheory, autofiction, and autoethnography; expand the discussions of identity, relationality, and agency; and introduce new material on autobiographical archives and the profusion of “I”s in contemporary works. Smith and Watson also provide a helpful toolkit of strategies for reading life narrative and an extensive glossary of mini-essays analyzing key theoretical concepts and dozens of autobiographical genres. An indispensable exploration of this expansive, transnational, multimedia field, Reading Autobiography Now meticulously unpacks the heterogeneous modes of life narratives through which people tell their stories, from traditional memoirs and trauma narratives to collaborative life narrative and autobiographical comics.

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145297201X

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9781452972015

Manifesto for the Humanities

Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times

By: Sidonie Ann Smith

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Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times

By: Sidonie Ann Smith

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0472900064

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Reading Autobiography Now

An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition

By: Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson

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An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition

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Getting a Life

Everyday Uses of Autobiography

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Everyday Uses of Autobiography

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0816624895

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De/colonizing the Subject

De/colonizing the Subject

Reading Autobiography

Reading Autobiography

Interfaces

Interfaces

Manifesto for the Humanities

Manifesto for the Humanities

Getting a Life

Getting a Life

Reading Autobiography

Reading Autobiography

Interfaces

Interfaces

Reading Autobiography Now

Reading Autobiography Now

Manifesto for the Humanities

Manifesto for the Humanities

Reading Autobiography Now

Reading Autobiography Now

Getting a Life

Getting a Life

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