Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader

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Diane 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
Ruth Behar
Merrill Black
David Bleich
James Cone
Brenda Daly
Laura B. DeLind
Carlos L. Dews
Michael Dorris
Diane P. Freedman
Olivia Frey
Peter Hamlin
Laura Duhan Kaplan
Perri Klass
Muriel Lederman
Deborah Lefkowitz
Eunice Lipton
Robert D. Marcus
Donald Murray
Seymour Papert
Carla T. Peterson
David Richman
Sara Ruddick
Julie Tharp
Bonnie TuSmith
Alex Wexler
Naomi Weisstein
Patricia Williams

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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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