Table of Contents
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
