Auto/Biography in the Americas

Relational Lives
Herausgeber: Chansky, Ricia A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Auto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives brings together scholars from disparate regions, cultural perspectives, linguistic frameworks, and disciplinary backgrounds to explore what connects narrated lives in the Americas. Exploring Afro-diasporic subjectivities, gendered narratives, lives in translation, celebrity auto/biographies, and pedagogical approaches to teaching auto/biographical narratives, this volume argues that connections between locations in the Americas may be found in a shared history of diasporic movement causing an awareness of the need to belong and to define the self in relation to others. This book was published as a special issue of a b: Auto Biography Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781138641044
• ISBN-10: 1138641049
• Artikelnr.: 43919019

Autorenporträt

Ricia Anne Chansky is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. She is the co-editor of the scholarly journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and editor of the forthcoming volumes, The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader and Auto/Biography across the Americas: Transnational Themes Life Writing. She founded the International Auto/Biography Association - Chapter of the Americas.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: 30 Years (and Counting) Introduction: Moving beyond Boundaries
1. The Process: Finding Enslaved Children's Place, Voice, and Agency within
the Narrative 2. On Racial Silence and Salience: Narrating "African Things"
in Puerto Rican Oral History 3. Roots and Routes: The Biographical Meshwork
of Saint Josephine Bakhita 4. Tactical Lines in Three Black Women's Visual
Portraits, 1773-1849 5. (Un)Translatability and the Autobiographical
Subject in Maryse Condé's La vie sans fards 6. Exploring Narratives of
Contested Gender Identities in Jamaican Dancehall 7. Patti Smith Kicks In
the Walls of Memoir: Relational Lives and "the Right Voice" in Just Kids
8. Public Memory and Public Mourning in Contemporary Colombia 9.
(Auto)Biography in Pre-Service Teacher Training: Rural Education in Bahia,
Brazil