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Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 1994)
ESSAYS
- Writing, Violence, and the Racial Supplement in the Antebellum
Slave Narrative
- By Michael Nelson, p. 1
- Laughing, Crying, Surviving: The Pragmatic Politics of Leslie
Marmon Silko's Storyteller
- By Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, p. 18
- Australian Autobiography and the Question of National Identity:
Patrick White, Barry Humphries, and Manning Clark
- By Joy Hooton, p. 43
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Autobiography: Hemingway's Treatment
of Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast
- By Susanna Egan, p. 64
- Representative Men: Jeremy Belknap's American Biography
and the Political Culture of the Early Republic
- By Philip Gould, p. 83
- Roderick Random and the Fiction of Autobiography
- By John Skinner, p. 98
- Autobiographical Closure in the Future: Women Constructing
Hope
- By Elizabeth N. Evasdaughter, p. 115
- REVIEWS
- Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography.
By Paul John Eakin.
- Reviewed by Timothy Dow Adams, p. 134
- Autobiography and Questions of Gender. Ed. Shirley
Neuman.
- Reviewed by Kari J. Winter, p. 139
- Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes. By Gareth
B. Matthews.
- Reviewed by R.J. Schoeck, p. 145
- Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and
Innovation in Native American Autobiography. By Hertha Dawn
Wong.
- Reviewed by Linda Hogan, p. 147.
- Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams.
By Joanne Jacobson.
- Reviewed by John C. Orr, p. 150.
- Autobiographie & Avant-garde: Alain Robbe Grillet,
Serge Doubrovsky, Rachid Boudjedra, Maxine Hong Kingston, Raymond
Federman, Ronald Sukenick. Ed. Alfred Hornung and Ernstpeter
Ruhe.
- Reviewed by Paul John Eakin, p. 154
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Volume 9, Number 2 (Fall 1994)
- Special Topic: CANONS AND TRADITIONS
- Guest Editor: Joseph Hogan
- Introduction: Lifewriting, Canons and Traditions
- By Joseph Hogan, p. 163
- American Autobiography: The Changing Critical Canon
- By Lynn Z. Bloom and Ning Yu, p. 167
- Reflections of a Reluctant Anthologist
- By Arnold Krupat, p. 181
- The Canon: Reverence or Re-structure? An Anthologist's Nightmare:
A Personal Account of My Decisions and Selections as Editor of
The Folio Anthology of Autobiography, The Folio Society,
London, 1994
- By Angela G. Thirlwell, p. 192
- The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds and Victorian Autobiography
- By Clinton Machann, p. 202
- Of Textual Demise and Literary Renewal: George Sand and the
Problematics of Epistolary Autobiography
- By Anne E. McCall, p. 212
- OTHER ESSAYS
- Language of the Self in Julian of Norwich
- By Jay Ruud, p. 231
- G.W. Grayson--Creek Mixed Blood, Nationalist, and Autobiographer
- By Robert F. Sayre, p. 246
- Studies of the Self: Irish Autobiographical Writing and the
Discourses of Colonialism and Independence
- By Bernice Schrank, p. 260
- REVIEWS
- The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-
Representation. Ed. Robert Folkenflik.
- Review by John Hazlett, p. 277
- American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory.
Ed. Margo Culley.
- Reviewed by Kari J. Winter, pg 286
- My History, Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American
Autobiography. By Genaro M. Padilla.
- Reviewed by Richard D. Woods, p. 290
- Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric
of Self- Representation in Spain. By James D. Fernández.
- Reviewed by Patricia V. Greene, p. 294
- Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer: Ambivalence
and Autobiography. By Wendy Larson.
- Reviewed by Wan Liu, p. 298
- A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy
in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Martin A. Danahay.
- Reviewed by Clinton Machann, p. 302
- Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass. Ed. William
L. Andrews.
- Reviewed by Laura Quinn, p. 305
Contents for
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Volume 10, Number 1 (Spring 1995)
- Special Topic: TERMS OF IDENTITY: ESSAYS ON THE THEORETICAL
TERMINOLOGY OF LIFEWRITING
- Guest Editors: Timothy Dow Adams with Barry N. Olshen
- Introduction: Term Limits
- By Timothy Dow Adams with Barry N. Olshen, p. 1
- Subject, Persona, and Self in the Theory of Autobiography
- By Barry N. Olshen, p. 5
- Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance
- By Sidonie Smith, p. 17
- Authority
- By G. Thomas Couser, p. 34
- Between Text and Image: The Literary Portrait
- By Jeffrey Wallen, p. 50
- Immersion
- By Kay K. Cook, p. 66
- One Day at a Time: The Diary as Lifewriting
- By Robert A. Fothergill, p. 81
- Intercultural Autobiography
- By Jan Walsh Hokenson, p. 92
- Bios in Women's Autobiography
- By Helen M. Buss, p. 114
- OTHER ESSAYS
- The Gay Lifewriting of Reinaldo Arenas: Antes que anochezca
- By Robert Richmond Ellis, p. 126
- REVIEWS
- Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self- Representation.
By Leigh Gilmore.
- Reviewed by Dawn E. Keetley, p. 145
- Autobiographical Quests: Augustine, Montaigne, Rousseau,
and Wordsworth. By Elizabeth de Mijolla.
- Reviewed by Sara Murphy, p. 149
- Sacred Estrangement: The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern
American Autobiography. By Peter A. Dorsey.
- The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the Narrative
of Conversion. By Gerald Peters.
- Reviewed by Lori Askeland, p. 152
Contents for
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Volume 10, Number 2 (Fall 1995)
ESSAYS
- Racial Conviction, Racial Confusion: Indeterminate Identities
in Women's Slave Narratives and Southern Courts
- By Dawn Keetley, p. 1
- Womanist Parables in Gifts of Power: The Autobiography
of Rebecca Cox Jackson
- By Kimberly Rae Connor, p. 21
- Autobiography as Resurrection: Rousseau's Dialogues
- By Eugene L. Stelzig, p. 39
- Parameters of the Self in Pasternak's "Safe Conduct"
- By Larissa Rudova, p. 52
- From Autobiography to Infinity: Mary McCarthy's Memories
of a Catholic Girlhood and How I Grew
- By Lynn Domina, p. 68
- "Signified by pain": Adrienne Rich's Body Tracks
- By Jeanne Perreault, p. 87
- "The Subject Is, Life for Everything": Gendered
Transgression of Genre Boundaries in Sarah Ferguson's Autobiographies
- By Jane Campbell, p. 104
- REVIEWS
- Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical
Practices in the Twentieth Century. By Sidonie Smith.
- Reviewed by Mary Grimley Mason, p. 123
- What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference.
By Shoshana Felman.
- Reviewed by Georgia Johnston, p. 127
- Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary
German Literature and Film. By Barbara Kosta.
- Reviewed by Katharina Gerstenberger, p. 131
- French Autobiography: Devices and Desires: Rousseau to
Perec. By Michael Sheringham.
- Reviewed by Thomas C. Spear, p. 134
- The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters
and Fiction. By Rosemarie Bodenheimer.
- Reviewed by Janice Carlisle, p. 138
Contents for
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Volume 11, Number 1 (Spring 1996)
ESSAYS
- Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case
of William Apess
- By Gordon Sayre, p. 1
- Revising Freely: Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Disembodiment
- By Ben Slote, p. 19
- Slaying the Fathers: The Autobiography of Chester Himes
- By Gary Storhoff, p. 38
- "Keep out / Keep out / Your snooting snout . . .":
The Irresistible Journals of Elizabeth Smart
- By Elizabeth Podnieks, p. 56
- Disease, Democracy, and Diary: George Sand's Diary of
a Traveller During the War
- By David A. Powell, p. 82
- The Hobo as National Hero: Models for American Manhood in
"Steam Train" Maury Graham's Autobiography
- By Mary Paniccia Carden, p. 93
- "My Shoes": Charles Simic's Self-Portraits
- By Daniel Morris, p. 109
- REVIEWS
- Telling Women's Lives. By Linda Wagner-Martin.
- Reviewed by Eileen M. Angelini, p. 128
- The Art of Literary Biography. Ed. John Batchelor.
- Reviewed by Carolyn Wedin, p. 131
- Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in Marcel Proust,
James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Anais Nin. By Suzanne Nalbantian.
- Reviewed by Linda A. Gordon. p. 135
- Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss
of Faith. By John D. Barbour.
- Reviewed by John D. Hazlett, p. 139
Contents for
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Volume 11, Number 2 (Fall 1996)
- Special Topic: RETHINKING RUSSIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Guest Editor: Marina Balina
- Introduction: Russian Autobiographies of the Twentieth Century:
Fictions of the Self
- By Marina Balina, p. 3
- Revamping "Family Chronicles": Ivan Bunin's The
Life of Arsen'ev
- By Thomas Gaiton Marullo, p. 8
- Maksim Gorky's Autobiographical Trilogy: The Lure of Myth
and the Power of Fact
- By Andrew Barratt, p. 24
- (Autobio/Bio/Hagio)graphy; or, Life as Genre: Alesha Peshkov--Maksim
Gorky--Mark Donski
- By Evgeny Dobrenko, p. 43
- Angels in the Stalinist House: Nadezhda Madelstam, Lidiia
Chukovskaia, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Russian Women's Autobiography
- By Sarah Pratt, p. 68
- The Rural Writer's Imagined Childhood: Poetry and Politics
- By Kathleen Parthé, p. 87
- Vasilii Shukshin's Liubavin Family Chronicle and
the Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness
- By John Givens, p. 106
- (Pseudo-)Autobiography in Brodsky's Lyrical Poetry
- By Piotr Fast, p. 127
- Self-Portrait on a Timeless Background: Transformations of
the Autobiographical Mode in Russian Postmodernism
- By Mark Lipovetsky, p. 142
- REVIEWS
- St. Teresa of Avila: Author of a Heroic Life. By
Carole Slade.
- Reviewed by Kathleen Ashley, p. 166.
Contents for
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Volume 12, Number 1 (Spring 1997)
ESSAYS
- The Florence Howe Award Essay in Feminist Studies (Sponsored
by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages):
Widows, Hacks, and Biographers: The Voice of Professionalism
in
- Elizabeth Agassiz's Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
- By Linda S. Bergmann, p. 1
- The Polemics of Recollection: Three Russian Futurists Struggle
over the Past
- By Walter Comins-Richmond, p. 22
- The Summons of the Word and the Speaking of the Spirit in
the Holocaust Diary
- By David Patterson, p. 37
- Representation and Representative Politics: Reading Female
Insurgency, Subalternity, and Self-Constitution in the Anti-
Colonial Text
- By Betty Joseph, p. 52
- Unsettling Identities: Transitive Subjectivity in Cherrie
Moraga's Loving in the War Years
- By Debra J. Blake, p. 71
- Sophisticated Spaces: Fiction, Autobiography, and Reading
Elizabeth Jolley
- By Barbara H. Milech, p. 90
- That Black Limousine on the Mekong: Marguerite Duras' Chinese
Puzzle
- By Hazel Rowley, p. 106
- Pain and Painting: Frida Kahlo's Visual Autobiography
- By Mimi Y. Yang, p. 121
- REVIEWS
- Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power
in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives. By Kari J. Winter
- Reviewed by Beth L. Lueck, p. 134
- Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries.
Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff
- Reviewed by Kay K. Cook, p. 136
- The French New Autobiographies: Sarraute, Duras and Robbe-
Grillet. By Raylene Ramsay
- Reviewed by Thomas C. Spear, p. 139
Contents for
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Volume 12, Number 2 (Fall 1997)
- EDITORS' NOTE, p. 147
SPECIAL ISSUE: CROSS-CULTURAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Guest Editors: Rebecca Hogan and Joseph Hogan Introduction:
Cross-Cultural Autobiography
- By Rebecca Hogan and Joseph Hogan, p. 149
- Postcolonial Blues: Ambivalence and Alienation in the Autobiographies
of Richard Rodriguez and V.S. Naipaul
- By Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, p. 151
- Complicating "Complicity/Resistance" in Janet Schaw's
Journal of a Lady of Quality
- By Elizabeth S. Kim, p. 166.
- Illegitimacy and Intercultural Lifewriting
- By Suzanne Bunkers, p. 188<
- OTHER ESSAYS
- Memoir with an Attitude: One Reader Reads The Woman Warrior:
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
- By Helen M. Buss, p. 203
- Autobiography Versus Postmodernism: Alice Kaplan and Elisabeth
Roudinesco
- By Jeremy D. Popkin, p. 225
- Autobiography's Secret
- By Daniel Hayes, p.243
- "The Immanent Pattern": Recovering a Self in Mary
Austin's Earth Horizon
- By Linda K. Karell, p. 261
- REVIEWS
- Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries and English Diurnal Form,
1660–1785. By Stuart Sherman
- Reviewed by Emily Hipchen, p. 276
- Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death.
By Nancy K. Miller
- Reviewed by Susanna Egan, p. 279
- Crucial Conversations: Interpreting Contemporary American
Literary Autobiographies by Women. By Jeanne Braham
- Reviewed by Suzanne Bunkers, p. 282
- Le Tournant d'une vie [The Turning Point of a Life].
Ed. Philippe Lejeune and Claude Leroy
- Le Pacte autobiographique: nouvelle édition augmentée
[The Autobiographical Pact: New Expanded Edition]. By Philippe
Lejeune
- Reviewed by Eileen M. Angelini, p. 284
- Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act.
By Charles Caramello
- Reviewed by Carol Holly, p. 288
- BOOKS RECEIVED, p. 293
- ANNOUNCEMENTS, p. 296
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, p. 298
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