(Ebook) Reading Autobiography A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives 2nd Edition by Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson 0816669856 9780816669851

(Ebook) Reading Autobiography A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives 2nd Edition by Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson 0816669856 9780816669851

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ISBN 10: 0816669856
ISBN 13: 9780816669851
Author: Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson

With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide for students and scholars reading and interpreting autobiographical texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts.

Thoroughly updated, the second edition of Reading Autobiography is the most complete assessment of life narrative in its myriad forms. It lays out a sophisticated, theoretical approach to life writing and the components of autobiographical acts, including memory, experience, identity, embodiment, space, and agency. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson explore these components, review the history of life writing and the foundations of autobiographical subjectivity, and provide a toolkit for working with twenty-three key concepts. Their survey of innovative forms of life writing, such as autographics and installation self-portraiture, charts recent shifts in autobiographical practice. Especially useful for courses are the appendices: a glossary covering dozens of distinct genres of life writing, proposals for group and classroom projects, and an extensive bibliography.

Ebook Reading Autobiography A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives 2nd Table of contents:

1. Life Narrative: Definitions and Distinctions

• Defining Kinds of Life Writing

• Life Writing and Biography

• Life Writing and the Novel

• Life Writing and History

• Autobiographical Truth

2. Autobiographical Subjects

• Memory

  • Memory as Meaning-Making

  • Memory and History

  • The Politics of Remembering

  • Collective Remembering

  • Memory and Materiality

  • Memory and Trauma

• Experience

  • Experience as Constitutive of the Subject

  • Experience as Discursive

  • Experience as Interpretation

  • Experience as Authoritative

  • Experience and the Reader

• Identity

  • Identity as Difference and Commonality

  • Identities as Discursive

  • Identities as Historically-Specific Models

  • Identities as Intersectional

• Space

  • Space as Material Surround or Place

  • Social Spaces, Spaces of Sociality

  • Geopolitical Space and Spatial Rhetorics

  • Spatial Tropes and Topoi of Interiority

  • Memory and Spatialization

  • Reading for Space

• Embodiment

  • Embodied Memory

  • Embodiment and Location

  • Narratives of the Body

  • Reading for the Body

• Agency

  • Theories of Agency

  • The Politics of Agency

3. Autobiographical Acts

• Coaxers, Coaches, and Coercers

• Sites of Storytelling

• The Producer of the Autobiographical "I"

• The "Real" or Historical "I"

• The Narrating "I"

• The Narrated "I"

• Complicating the Narrating "I"—Narrated "I" Distinction

• The Ideological "I"

• Reading the "I"

• Voice in Autobiographical Writing

• Relationality and the Others of Autobiographical "I"s

• The Addressee

• Structuring Modes of Self-Inquiry

• Patterns of Emplotment

• The Medium

• The Consumer

• Paratextual Apparatuses

4. Life Narrative in Historical Perspective

• Autobiographical Subjects in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

• The Humanist Subject, Secular and Spiritual

• The Migratory Subject of Early Modern Travel Narratives

• The Enlightenment Subject

• The Dissenting Subject

• The Bourgeois Subject

• The Exceptional Subject of Modern Life Narrative

• New Subjects of Life Narrative in the Eighteenth Century

• The Romantic Subject of Lost Illusions

• The Bildungsroman and the Bourgeois Subject

• American Subjects in the Nineteenth Century

5. In the Wake of the Memoir Boom

• Contemporary Bildungsroman

• Nation, Citizenship, and Life Writing

• Rights Narratives and Allegations of Hoaxing

• Narratives of Grief, Mourning, and Reparation

• Narratives of Breakdown and Breakthrough: Illness, Impairment, Vulnerability, and Addiction and Recovery

• New-Model Narratives of Embodiment: Gastrography, Conscious Aging, Sexualized Subjects

• New-Model Narratives of Displacement, Migration, and Exile: Family Stories and Postethnic Lives

• Autoethnography

• Ecobiography: Lives in Dialogue with Place

• Celebrity Lives: Self-Advertisements of Movie Stars, Sports Heroes, Military Leaders, and Other Public Figures

6. The Visual-Verbal-Virtual Contexts of Life Narrative

• Graphic Memoir

• Autobiographical Acts in Performance and Visual Arts

• Autobiographical Film and Video

• Online Lives

• The Digital Archive of Life Narrative

7. A History of Autobiography Criticism, Part I: Theorizing Autobiography

• Historicizing the Origins and Cultural Contexts of Autobiography

• Canon Formation

• Theoretical Interventions I: Gusdorf, Hart, and Creative Self-Representation

• Theoretical Interventions II: Acts, Pacts, and Fictions

• Some Influential Studies

8. A History of Autobiography Criticism, Part II: Expanding Autobiography Studies

• Useful Theoretical Concepts: Performativity, Positionality, Relationality

• Theorizing Emergent Genres of Life Narrative

• Vulnerable Lives: Trauma, Testimony, and Human Rights

• Critical Geographies

• New Contexts: Neuroscience, Cognitive Studies, and Genomics

• Digitized Forms and Identities

• Theorizing Everyday Lives

• Autocritical Practices

• The Uses of Life Writing: How-To’s and Pedagogies

9. A Tool Kit: Twenty-Four Strategies for Reading Life Narratives

• Agency

• Audience and Address

• Authority and Authenticity

• Authorship and the Historical Moment

• The Autobiographical "I"

• Autographics

• Body and Embodiment

• Coherence and Closure

• Collaborative Autobiography

• Ethics

• Evidence

• Experience

• History of Reading Publics

• Identity

• Knowledge and Self-Knowledge

• Memory

• Narrative Plotting and Modes

• Online Lives

• Paratexts

• Relationality

• Space and Place

• Temporality

• Trauma and Scriptotherapy

• Voice

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