Getting A Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography
by Sidonie Smith
contributions by Julia Watson
University of Minnesota Press, 1996
Paper: 978-0-8166-2490-4
Library of Congress Classification CT25.G48 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 818.50809492
TOC
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Smith, Sidonie
- Watson, Julia
- I
- Speaking Bodies
- 1
- Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Inside the Body in Fiction, Film, and Performance Art
- Kauffman, Linda S.
- 2
- “Voicing” Deaf Identity: Through the “I's” and Ears of an Other
- Bauman, H-Dirksen L.
- 3
- Medical Identity: My DNA/Myself
- Cook, Kay K.
- II
- Entertaining Lives
- 4
- Morphing Identities: Arnold Schwarzenegger—Write Us
- Krasniewicz, Louise
- Blitz, Michael
- 5
- Performing Teen Motherhood on Video: Autoethnography as Counterdiscourse
- Chasnoff, Salome
- 6
- The Mediated Talking Cure: Therapeutic Framing of Autobiography in TV Talk Shows
- Peck, Janice
- 7
- Want Ads: Reading the Personals
- Carroll, Traci
- III
- Un/Speakable Lives
- 8
- Consensual Autobiography: Narrating “Personal Sexual History” from Boswell's London Journal to AIDS Pamphlet Literature
- Baruth, Philip E.
- 9
- Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?
- Alcoff, Linda Martín
- Gray-Rosendale, Laura
- 10
- Taking It to a Limit One More Time: Autobiography and Autism
- Smith, Sidonie
- IV
- Family Portraits
- 11
- “What Kind of Life Have I Got?” Gender in the Life Story of an “Ordinary” Woman
- Weisser, Susan Ostrov
- 12
- Race/Identity/Culture/Kin: Constructions of African American Identity in Transracial Adoption
- Patton, Sandra
- 13
- Ordering the Family: Genealogy as Autobiographical Pedigree
- Watson, Julia
- V
- Institutionalized Lives
- 14
- Twelve-Step Teleology: Narratives of Recovery/Recovery as Narrative
- Warhol, Robyn R.
- Michie, Helena
- 15
- Professional Subjects: Prepackaging the Academic C.V.
- Danahay, Martin A.
- 16
- (For)getting a Life: Testimony, Identity, and Power
- Chaloupka, William
- Epilogue: Pieces of My Heart
- Watson, Julia
- Contributors
- Index
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