Auto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives

ISBN-13: 9781138309470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 180 str.

Ricia A. Chansky

Opis

This book brings together scholars from disparate regions, cultural perspectives, linguistic frameworks, and disciplinary backgrounds to explore what connects narrated lives in the Americas. It was published as a special issue of a|b: Auto|Biography Studies.

Spis treści

Foreword: 30 Years (and Counting)  Introduction: Moving beyond Boundaries  1. The Process: Finding Enslaved Children’s Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative  2. On Racial Silence and Salience: Narrating "African Things" in Puerto Rican Oral History  3. Roots and Routes: The Biographical Meshwork of Saint Josephine Bakhita  4. Tactical Lines in Three Black Women’s Visual Portraits, 1773-1849  5. (Un)Translatability and the Autobiographical Subject in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards  6. Exploring Narratives of Contested Gender Identities in Jamaican Dancehall  7. Patti Smith Kicks In the Walls of Memoir: Relational Lives and "the Right Voice" in Just Kids  8. Public Memory and Public Mourning in Contemporary Colombia  9. (Auto)Biography in Pre-Service Teacher Training: Rural Education in Bahia, Brazil

O autorze

Ricia Anne Chansky is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. She is the co-editor of the scholarly journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and editor of the forthcoming volumes, The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader and Auto/Biography across the Americas: Transnational Themes Life Writing. She founded the International Auto/Biography Association – Chapter of the Americas.