Auto/Biography Across the Americas: Transnational Themes in Life Writing

ISBN-13: 9780367875343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 254 str.

Ricia a. Chansky

Opis

Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This volume brings together essays by scholars from diverse national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary backgrounds to trace these transnational motifs in life writing across the Americas. It advances discourse in auto/biography studi

Recenzje

"In Auto/Biography Across the Americas, Chansky has collected twelve thought-provoking essays focusing on “points of connectivity”, linking life writing across the Americas. Chansky argues that these narratives are characterized broadly by two key themes: movement and belonging. More generally, she argues that auto/biography studies would benefit from centering theories, narratives, and disciplinary perspectives that destabilize nationalist frameworks for understanding literature and identity."- Theresa A. Kulbaga, Miami University

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CONTENTS

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reading beyond Boundaries

Chapter One: Timescapes, Backpacks, Networks

Chapter Two: Art, Identity, and Narration

Chapter Three: A Transnational Autobiographical Pact

Chapter Four: Between Nations, Between Selves

Chapter Five: Talking beyond Borders

Chapter Six: The Mediated Self in the Contested Domain of Caribbean Autobiography

Chapter Seven: Mapping Out a Treacherous Terrain

Chapter Eight: Decolonial Translation in Embodied Auto/Biographical Indigenous Performance

Chapter Nine: "See how I talk about the slavemaster"

Chapter Ten: Class and Class Awareness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Chapter Eleven: The Paradoxical Demand for Realism

Chapter Twelve: "Forward!" National Identity, Animalographies, and the Ethics of Representation in the Posthuman Imaginary

Contributors

Index

O autorze

Ricia Anne Chansky is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She is editor of the journal Auto/Biography Studies and co-editor of The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader (Routledge, 2016).