Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

A Reader

Edited by: Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey
With contributions by: Ruth Behar and David Bleich

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384960

Overview
Contents

About this book

An anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research.

Author / Editor information

Diane P. Freedman is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of An Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre Writing by American Feminist Poet-Critics, editor of Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal, and coeditor of The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy.

Olivia Frey, retired from her position as Professor of English at St. Olaf College, is now the lead administrator at the Village School in Northfield, Minnesota. Freedman and Frey are the coeditors (with Frances Murphy Zauhar) of The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism, published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“This anthology of autobiographical writing by scholars with a range of ties to the academy, this mosaic of brave, graceful, and compassionate voices, skillfully edited by Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, bears testimony to the strength of an intellectual movement that is changing the way scholarship is being done. . . . [T]his book asserts the importance of a common project, a shared commitment to a way of knowing as well as a way of telling.”—Ruth Behar, from the foreword

“This collection brings a new kind of scholarship into focus: research that has a human face and speaks with a human voice. In these essays, knowledge comes alive for the reader because it has sprung from the lived experience of the investigator. The contributors are pioneers in their fields, blazing trails for future work in their disciplines.”—Jane Tompkins, author of A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Self/Discipline: An Introduction Diane Freedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Language and Literature
Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription David Bleich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet Carlos Dews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Three Readings of the Wife of Bath Merrill Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats’s Plays David Richman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor Bonnie Tusmith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Following the Voice of the Draft Donald Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing Carla Peterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
History
Tribute to Robert D. Marcus David Bleich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Journey/man: Hi/s/tory Robert Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Religion
From God of the Oppresse James Cone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Philosophy
Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss Laura Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Maternal Thinking Sara Ruddick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Africana Studies
Altered States Kwame Appiah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Art History
History of an Encounter Eunice Lipton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Music
Devouring Music: Ruminations of a ComposerWho Cooks Peter Hamlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Film
When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre Julie Tharp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Filming Point of View Deborah Lefkowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Anthropology
From The Broken Cord Michael Dorris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Juban Ameríca Ruth Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Close Encounters with a csa: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist Laura Delind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Law
The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing) Patricia Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
English Education
My Father/My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status Brenda Daly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Research Psychology
Adventures of aWoman in Science Naomi Weisstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Biology
Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist’s Life in Biology Muriel Lederman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Medicine
That Disorder: An Introduction Alice Wexler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
A Textbook Pregnancy Perri Klass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	444
Math, Psychology, and Science Education
Personal Thinking Seymour Papert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 506
Illustrations
- Other: 7 b&w photos

eBook

Published: January 23, 2004
ISBN: 9780822384960