Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A ReaderAutobiographical 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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... to 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 .
... the room who were made to feel uncomfortable by my presen- tation , but I didn't notice . I did see that the room fell silent as I spoke and that people were listening . Several colleagues were kind enough to tell me they were moved ...
And yet like all anthologies , this book asserts the importance of a common project , a shared commitment to a way of knowing as well as a way of telling . What exactly is that common project and why does it matter ?
As literary scholar George Wright insists in an issue of Pmla ( October 1998 ) devoted to the questions of the personal , " If I tell how I chose this topic , what serendipitous encounter with book or friend put me onto this approach ...
Carla Peterson's " Notes of a Native Daughter : Reflections on Identity and Writing " tells the story of Peterson's family's life abroad and retrospec- tively attributes Peterson's career and present project in African American studies ...
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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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| Título | Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader |
| Editores | Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Duke University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0822332132, 9780822332138 |
| Largo | 487 páginas |
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