Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A ReaderDiane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey Duke University Press, 2003 - 487 páginas Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies and history, mathematics and medicine, philosophy, music, film, ethnic studies, law, education, anthropology, religion, and biology. Pioneers in the development of the hybrid genre of personal scholarship, the writers whose work is presented here challenge traditional modes of inquiry and ways of knowing. In assembling their work, editors Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey have provided a rich source of reasons for and models of autobiographical criticism. The editors’ introduction presents a condensed history of academic writing, chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism, and emphasizes the role of feminism in championing the value of personal narrative to disciplinary discourse. The essays are all explicitly informed by the identities of their authors, among whom are a feminist scientist, a Jewish filmmaker living in Germany, a potential carrier of Huntington’s disease, and a doctor pregnant while in medical school. Whether describing how being a professor of ethnic literature necessarily entails being an activist, how music and cooking are related, or how a theology is shaped by cultural identity, the contributors illuminate the relationship between their scholarly pursuits and personal lives and, in the process, expand the boundaries of their disciplines. Contributors: Kwame Anthony Appiah |
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... give us a false security . I say that more than ever what we are going to need are the strong personal voices we have cultivated , separately and in unison , as outsiders within the academy . I have faith that our voices will rise to ...
... issues . In most cases , this autobiographical knowing directly challenges the methods of the fields and institutions in which the writers work . These selections , then , give us not just new information or new voices but 2 Introduction ·
A Reader Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey. give us not just new information or new voices but new methods , new means of recognizing , valuing , and circulating information . The contributors in this book are , in fact , seriously ...
... give it up , that knowing requires detachment , objectivity , and depersonalization . One detractor of autobiographical criticism , Daphne Patai , complains about what she deems a " nouveau solipsism , " concluding , " the last time I ...
... gives people a measure of control over their lives , which is one of the reasons why gods are invented in the first place . Some say the science - god gives more control and more power than any other god before it . ( 9 ) Mimicking the ...
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SelfInclusion and SelfInscription | 41 |
East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet | 68 |
Three Readings of the Wife of Bath | 85 |
My Sightless Insights into Yeatss Plays | 96 |
Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor | 114 |
Following the Voice of the Draft | 129 |
Reflections on Identity and Writing | 138 |
Tribute to Robert D Marcus | 159 |
Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre | 281 |
Filming Point of View | 292 |
From The Broken Cord | 311 |
Juban America | 331 |
The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist | 349 |
The Death of the Profane a commentary on the genre of legal writing | 365 |
English Education Politics and Status | 375 |
Adventures of a Woman in Science | 397 |
History | 161 |
From God of the Oppressed | 189 |
Extending a Hand across the Abyss | 205 |
Maternal Thinking | 216 |
Altered States | 233 |
History of an Encounter | 257 |
Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks | 265 |
A Feminists Life in Biology | 417 |
An Introduction | 435 |
A Textbook Pregnancy | 444 |
Personal Thinking | 455 |
Selected Bibliography | 467 |
Contributors | 483 |
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