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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... tell me stories about death . The research would form the basis of the paper I needed to present for a panel on attitudes toward death in rural Europe . Shortly before the end of my trip , my grandfather died in Miami Beach . I was ...
... tell me they were moved to tears by my paper . That was all the encouragement I needed . Over the next several months I expanded the paper and turned it into an essay , " Death and Memory , " which became the opening piece of my book ...
... telling . What exactly is that common project and why does it matter ? Having been asked to write a foreword for this volume , I accepted the honor , view- ing it as an opportunity to examine how so many of us arrived at this desti ...
... tell how I chose this topic , what serendipitous encounter with book or friend put me onto this approach , I am only following lines laid down by Augus- tine , Montaigne , Coleridge , Keats , Woolf [ and many others ] " ( 1160 ) . In ...
... tells the story of Peterson's family's life abroad and retrospec- tively attributes Peterson's career and present project in African American studies to a summertime visit to her Swiss family home one day by nov- elist James Baldwin ...
Contenido
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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