The Seductions of Biography

ISBN-13: 9780415910903 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str.

David Suchoff; Mary Rheil; Mary Rhiel

Opis

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Introduction, Mary Rhiel, David Suchoff; Part I MASS MEDIA,Introduclion, K. Anthony Appiah; Chapter 1 BISEXUALITY AND CELEBRITY, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 2 PERSONAL STORIES AND NATIONAL MEANINGS, Marita Sturken; Chapter 3 INVENTING AND INTERPRETING MALCOLM X, Michael Eric Dyson; Part II PRIVATE LIVES, PUBLIC FIGURES; Chapter 03 Introduction, William S. McFeely; Chapter 4 READING THE SILENCES IN A GAY LIFE, John D'Emilio; Chapter 5 OUTING HISTORY, Blanche Wiesen Cook; Chapter 6 MICHAEL HARRINGTON, Maurice Isserman; Part III CHANGING THE SUBJECT; Chapter 04 Introduction, Betty Sasaki; Chapter 7 TWO PAINTINGS BY WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, Richard J. Powell; Chapter 8 RECONSTRUCTING ENTERPRISE, Jeffrey Louis Decker; Chapter 9 FRIDA KAHLO, Hayden Herrera; Part IV WHOSE LIFE IS IT, ANYWAY?; Chapter 05 Introduction, Barbara Johnson; Chapter 10 TELLING SECRETS, Diane Wood Middlebrook; Chapter 11 CONFESSIONS OF A BURNED-OUTlncidents IN THE LIFE OF HARRIET JACOBS, Jean Fagan Yellin; Chapter 13 TAKING A LIFE, Doris Sommer; Part V POSTMODERNISM AND THE POSSIBILITY OFIntroduction, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 14 TELLING THE TELLER, Sherley Anne Williams; Chapter 15 CATASTROPHIC ENCOIINTERS, Marilyn L. Brownstein; Chapter 16 YOUR NEAREST EXTT MAY BE BEHIND YOU, Clark Blaise;

O autorze

David Suchoff is Assistant Professor of English at Colby College. Mary Rhiel is Associate Professor of German at the University of New Hampshire.