Reading autobiography
Subtitle: a guide for interpreting life narratives
By: Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
Contributors: Watson, Julia, 1945-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780816669851; 9780816669868
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Life narrative : definitions and distinctions; title: Autobiographical subjects; title: Autobiographical acts; title: Life narrative in historical perspective; title: In the wake of the memoir boom; title: The visual-verbal-virtual contexts of life narrative; title: A history of autobiography criticism, part I : theorizing autobiography; title: A history of autobiography criticism, part II : expanding autobiography studies; title: A tool kit : twenty-four strategies for reading life narratives; title: Appendix A. Sixty genres of life narrative; title: Appendix B. Group and classroom projects; title: Appendix C. Journals and internet resources.