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Volumes 13-16



 

 

 

Volume 13, Number 1 (Spring 1998)

SPECIAL ISSUE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND NEUROSCIENCE
Special Editor: Tom Smith
Introduction: Autobiography in Fresh Contexts
By Tom Smith .............................................................. 1
“The Time of Unrememberable Being”: Wordsworth’s Autobiography of the Imagination
By Francis F. Steen ...................................................... 7
Madeleines and Neuromoderism: Reassessing Mechanisms of Autobiographical Memory in Proust
By Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and Gordon M. Shepherd .... 39
Autobiography and Memory
By Roger Porter and Daniel Reisberg ............................ 61
Literary Testimonies of Illness and the Reshaping of Social Memory
By Maia Saj Schmidt .................................................... 71
Neuroscience and Autobiography: A Selected Bibliography
By Tom Smith ............................................................... 92
OTHER ESSAYS
Casting the Nets: Audience and Selfhood in Langston Hughes’s The Big Sea
By J.D. Scrimgeour ................................................................ 97
Kathie Lee Gifford and the Commodification of Autobiography
By Martin Danahay ................................................................ 116
REVIEWS
De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women’s Autobiography. Ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
Reviewed by John Hazlett ...................................................... 131
Women’s Life-Writing: Finding Voice/Building Community. Ed. Linda S. Coleman
Reveiwed by Gretchen Flesher Moon .................................... 139
Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life. Ed. Nancy Owen Nelson
Reviewed by Rose Norman ................................................... 146
BOOKS RECEIVED ................................................................... 150
ANNOUNCEMENTS .................................................................. 152
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ....................................................... 157

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Volume 13, Number 2 (Fall 1998)

ESSAYS
Marching on the Catwalk and Marketing the Self: Margaret Cavendish’s Autobiography
By Effie Botonaki ................................................................... 159
Honor thy Father: Women’s Autobiographical Writing as Confessional Discourse in Colonial Spanish America
By Kristine Ibsen ................................................................... 182
Narratives of Resistance: Negotiating the Altering and Altered Selves in the Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree
By Amy L. Wink ................................................................... 199
Writing the Body: From Abject to Subject
By Allison Kimmich ............................................................... 223
Testimony and the Subjects of AIDS Memoirs
By Jason Tougaw .................................................................. 235
Loren Eiseley and the Dancing Rat: Science as Autobiography
By Jack Bushnell ................................................................... 257
Seeing Double: The Two Lives of Raymond Carver
By Nicholas Horn ................................................................. 271
REVIEWS
Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing. By G. Thomas Couser.
Reviewed by Susanna Egan .................................................. 298
Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography. By Linda Haverty Rugg.
Reviewed by Timothy Dow Adams ...................................... 302
Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autography. By Jeanne Perreault.
Reviewed by Rose Norman ................................................. 306
BOOKS RECEIVED ................................................................ 311
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS .................................................... 314

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Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 1999)

SPECIAL ISSUE:
EXTREMITIES: MEMOIRS AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE
Special Editor: Nancy K. Miller
Introduction: Extremities; or, Memoirs at the Fin de Siècle
By Nancy K. Miller ............................................................. 1
Gender Degree Zero: Memoirs of FrozenTime in Antarctica
By Victoria Rosner .............................................................. 5
Burning Connections: Maternal Betrayal in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother
By Anne P. Rice .................................................................. 23
Memory Stains: Annie Ernaux’s Shame
By Nancy K. Miller ............................................................. 38
After Lot’s Daughters: Kathryn Harrison and the Making of Memory
By Laura Frost .................................................................... 51
A Palinode on Photography and the Transsexual Real
By Jay Prosser .................................................................... 71
Between the Extreme and the Everyday: Ruth Klüger’s Traumatic Realism
By Michael Rothberg ........................................................... 93
Writing Wrong
By Sandra M. Gilbert .......................................................... 108
OTHER ESSAYS
Texted Selves: Dorothy and William Wordsworth in the Grasmere Journals
By Anca Vlasopolos ........................................................... 118
REVIEWS
Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women’s Life-Writing. By Suzette Henke.
Reviewed by Miranda Sherwin ........................................... 137
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. By James Olney.
Reviewed by John Eakin .................................................... 142
CONFERENCE REPORT
The First International Conference on Auto/Biography: Approaching the
Auto/Biographical Turn. 21–24 June 1999, Beijing, China
Report by Tom Smith ........................................................ 146
BOOKS RECEIVED .............................................................. 156
ANNOUNCEMENTS ............................................................. 158
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS .................................................. 159

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Volume 14, Number 2 (Winter 1999)

ESSAYS
“The Naked Truth”: Pathography and the Case (No. 81128) of Marilyn Monroe
By Sarah Churchwell ......................................................... 161
The Moral of My Story: Alice Kaplan’s French Lessons and the Moralization of Autobiography
By Kimberly Freeman ....................................................... 186
The Shifting Self: Gender and Tradition in Edith Wharton’s A Backward Glance
By Windy Counsell Petrie .................................................. 204
Intimate Sympathy and Self-Effacement: Writing the Life of Sophia Jex-Blake
By Kristine Swenson ......................................................... 222
“This Is . . . Not My Autobiography”: The Paralyzed Body and Cultural Critique in Robert Murphy’s The Body Silent
By William Major .............................................................. 241
Transforming the Tale: The Auto/body/ographies of Nancy Mairs
By Susannah B. Mintz ....................................................... 254
Motherhood as Spiritual Crisis: Memoirs of Childbirth and Early Motherhood
By Trudelle Thomas .......................................................... 273
Memories, Dreams, Reflections: The Automythography of Carl Gustav Jung
By Barry N. Olshen .......................................................... 292
Defining a Field: The Encyclopedia of Life Writing
By Margaretta Jolly .......................................................... 309
Prodding and Prompting: Writing and Editing a Collaborative Memoir of Modern War: An Interview with Alex Vernon
Conducted by Farrell O’Gorman ...................................... 317
REVIEWS
Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography. Ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.
Reviewed by Roger J. Porter ............................................ 328
Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader. Ed. Jennifer Sabbioni, Kay Schaffer, and Sidonie Smith.
Reviewed by Barbara H. Milech ....................................... 332
BOOKS RECEIVED .............................................................. 337
ANNOUNCEMENTS ............................................................ 340
CONTRIBUTORS ................................................................. 342
 

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Volume 15, Number 1 (Summer 2000)

SPECIAL ISSUE: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL QUE(E)RIES
Special Editor: Thomas C. Spear
Introduction: Autobiographical Que(e)ries
By Thomas C. Spear ........................................................ 1
William Golding’s To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy and Queer Autobiography
By William Stephenson ..................................................... 5
Solemn Geographies: AIDS and the Contours of Autobiography
By Derek Duncan ............................................................. 22
Prelude to Process: Sources of Felice Picano’s Life Writing: An Interview Based on Oral and Written Communication Conducted by Kevin S. Fries ...................................................... 37
Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography
By Judith Halberstam ......................................................... 62
Carrington: The Culturally Grotesque Hybrid Monster
By A. Mary Murphy .......................................................... 82
Lorde, Anzaldúa, and Tropicana Performatively Embody the Written Self
By Lynda Hall ................................................................... 96
Critical Journals: Theory and the Diary in Nicole Brossard and Daphne Marlatt
By Beverley Curran ........................................................... 123
In/Verse Autobiography: Sexual (In)Difference and the Textual Backside of Langston Hughes’s The Big Sea
By Brian Loftus ................................................................. 141
BOOKS RECEIVED .............................................................. 162
CONTRIBUTORS .................................................................. 164
 
 

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Volume 15, Number 2 (Fall 2000)

SPECIAL ISSUE: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL QUE(E)RIES
Special Editor: Thomas C. Spear
Introduction: Autobiographical, Queer We’s
By Thomas C. Spear...................................................................167
“This Killing Machine Called America”: Narrative of the Body in David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives
By Eric Waggoner.......................................................................171
The Homecoming Queen: The Reconstruction of Home in Queer Life-Narratives
By Yaakov Perry.........................................................................193
Scripting Autobiographical Subjectivity Online: Confessions of a Latina Cyber-Slut
By Juana María Rodríguez............................................................223
Memorializing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing in Tongues Untied and Black Is Black Ain’t
By Harvey Young.........................................................................248
Edmund White on Queer Autofiction, Biography, and Sidafiction
Interviewed by Thomas C. Spear..................................................261
OTHER ESSAYS
Autobiography, Mourning and Reparation: The Case of Melanie Klein
By Hilary Clark............................................................................277
John Updike’s Self-Consciousness and Literary Fame
By Joe Moran..............................................................................298
REVIEWS
Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette. By Paul Robinson
Reviewed by Lawrence Normand.................................................310
Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography. By Oliver S. Buckton
Reviewed by Terence Hoagwood.................................................313
Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity. By Cripin Sartwell
Reviewed by Lori Askeland..........................................................319
Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography. By Susan Clair Imbarrato
Reviewed by Gordon Sayre..........................................................325
BOOKS RECEIVED............................................................................327
ANNOUNCEMENTS..........................................................................329
CONTRIBUTORS................................................................................330
 
 

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Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2001)

 
 

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Volume 16, Number 2 (Fall 2001)

 
 

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