The ethics of working class autobiography : representation of family by four American authors /
Bidinger, Elizabeth.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.,
c2006.
"Focusing on the ethics of autobiography, this volume analyzes the works of four writers who spent much of their youth in working-class circumstances yet became highly educated intellectual professionals. It examines the way in which they confront their working-class past. In addition to representing different times, each work recounts the author's struggle with a particular societal element"--Provided by publisher.
"Focusing on the ethics of autobiography, this volume analyzes the works of four writers who spent much of their youth in working-class circumstances yet became highly educated intellectual professionals. It examines the way in which they confront their working-class past. In addition to representing different times, each work recounts the author's struggle with a particular societal element"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.
A world apart : working class autobiographers and their families -- Life with "a formidable woman" : Russell Baker's ethical representations in Growing up -- Inventing the self and the (br)other in John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and keepers -- Autobiography as healing : Agate Nesaule's A woman in amber -- "My folks and their country culture" : inventing authenticity in Bobbie Ann Mason's Clear Springs.
Baker, Russell, 1925-
Wideman, John Edgar.
Nesaule, Agate.
Mason, Bobbie Ann.
Authors, American
Authors, American
Working class authors
Autobiography