Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing, Rosalia Baena, ed.
London, New York: Routledge, 2007.
ISBN: 9780415400435
www.routledge.com
“Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing”, aims to be a theoretically challenging, analytical book of essays that describes the diversity of shapes transcultural life writing takes, demonstrating how it has become one of the most dynamic and productive literary forms of self-inscription and self-representation. This work expands much contemporary criticism on life writing, which tends to center on content – representations of race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, and so forth – rather than on the actual construction of the text and its performative possibilities. This collection of essays demonstrates that reading contemporary forms of life writing from a literary perspective is a rich field of critical intervention, which has been overlooked because of recent cultural studies' concern with material issues.”
Table of Contents:
Introduction: "Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing" by Rosalia Baena
"Shifting Forms of Sovereignty: Immigrant Parents and Ethnic Autobiographers" by William Boelhower
"The Hungry Self: The Politics of Food in Italian American Women’s Autobiographies" by Alison D. Goeller
"Painted Selves: Autography through Art of South Asian American Women" by Gita Rajan
"A Graphic Self: Comics as Autobiography in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis" by Rocío G. Davis
"Facts of the Mind made Manifest in a Fiction of Matter: Theory and Practice of Life Writing in Maya Deren’s Early Films" by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
"Autobiographical Story Cycles as a Vehicle for Enlightenment: Fredelle Bruser Maynard's /Raisins and Almonds/ and The Tree of Life" by Danielle Schaub
"In Praise of Art and Literature: Intertextuality, Translations and Migrations of Knowledge in Anna Jameson’s Travel Writings" by Rita Monticelli
"Paradigms of Canadian Literary Biography: Who Will Write Our History?" by Ana B. Delgado