The Routledge Auto Biography Studies Reader

Foreword, Sidonie Smith

General Introduction, Ricia Anne Chansky

Part 1: Foundations

Foundations Introduction, Ricia Anne Chansky

1. Autobiography and the Cultural Moment: A Thematic, Historical, and Bibliographical Introduction, James Olney

2. Conception and Origin of Autobiography, Georg Misch

3. Conditions and Limits of Autobiography, Georges Gusdorf

4. Autobiography as De-facement, Paul de Man

5. The Autobiographical Pact, Philippe Lejeune

6. Design and Lie in Modern American Autobiography, Timothy Dow Adams

7. Is There a Canon of Autobiography?, Eugene Stelzig

8. Reflections of a Reluctant Anthologist, Arnold Krupat

9. Forgotten Voices of Afro-American Autobiography, 1865–1930, William L. Andrews

10. Between Lines: Constructing the Political Self, Magdalena Maíz Peña and Luis H. Peña

11. The Impact of Critical Theory on the Study of Autobiography: Marginality, Gender, and Autobiographical Practice, Sidonie Smith

12. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub and into the Narrative, Marlene Kadar

13. Autopathography: Women, Illness, and Life-writing, G. Thomas Couser

14. Biography and Autobiography: Intermixing the Genres, Lois W. Banner

15. Ordering the Family: Genealogy as Autobiographical Pedigree, Julia Watson

Part 2: Transformations

Transformations Introduction, Ricia Anne Chansky

16. Kathie Lee Gifford and the Commodification of Autobiography, Martin Danahay

17. Transforming the Tale: The Auto/body/ographies of Nancy Mairs, Susannah B. Mintz

18. Memorializing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing in Tongues Untied and Black Is Black Ain’t, Harvey Young

19. Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography, Jack/Judith Halberstam

20. Limit-Cases: Trauma, Self-Representation, and the Jurisdictions of Identity, Leigh Gilmore

21. Authoring Ethnicized Subjects: Rigoberta Menchú and the Performative Production of the Subaltern Self, Arturo Arias

22. Recasting Indigenous Lives along the Lines of Western Desire: Editing, Autobiography, and the Colonizing Project, Alison Ravenscroft

23. Constructing Female Subjects in the Archive: A Reading of Three Versions of One Woman’s Subjectivity, Helen M. Buss

24. Out of Place: Extraterritorial Existence and Autobiography, Alfred Hornung

25. The Incomplete Return, Isabelle de Courtivron

26. Letters as/not a Genre, Margaretta Jolly and Liz Stanley

27. Are Memoirs Autobiography? A Consideration of Genre and Public Identity, Julie Rak

28. Autographics: The Seeing "I" of the Comics, Gillian Whitlock

29. What Are We Reading When We Read Autobiography?, Paul John Eakin

30. Autobiography and the Limits of Moral Criticism, Charles Altieri

Part 3: Futures

Futures Introduction, Ricia Anne Chansky

31. Family Matters, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

32. Living Autoethnography: Connecting Life and Research – Faith Wambura Ngunjiri, Kathy-Ann C. Hernandez, and Heewon Chang

33. Cultural Ecology, Literature, and Life Writing, Hubert Zapf

34. His Master’s Voice: Animalographies, Life Writing, and the Posthuman, Cynthia Huff and Joel Haefner

35. Engendering an Alternative Approach to Otherness in African Women’s Autobiography, Folasade Hunsu

36. Subjects in the Margins, Leonor Arfuch

37. Memoirs of Return: Saidiya Hartman, Eva Hoffman, and Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Nancy K. Miller, Nancy K. Miller

38. The Generation of Postmemory, Marianne Hirsch

39. Comics Form and Narrating Lives, Hillary Chute

40. Digital Biography: Capturing Lives Online, Paul Longley Arthur

41. Celebrity Bio Blogs: Hagiography, Pathography, and Perez Hilton, Elizabeth Podnieks

42. Cyberrace, Lisa Nakamura

43. Faith, Doubt, and Textual Identity, Susanna Egan

44. Making the Case for Self-narration Against Autofiction, Arnaud Schmitt

45. Genetic Studies of Life Writing, Philippe Lejeune