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Author : Rachael McLennan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780748670451
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book American Autobiography written by Rachael McLennan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299127848
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (278 download)
Download or read book American Autobiography written by Paul John Eakin and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only survey what has been done; they also point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention. Book jacket.
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Classic American Autobiographies written by William L. Andrews and published by Signet. This book was released on 1992 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects five of the most widely read biographies: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklyn, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Old Times on the Mississippi, Mark Twain, Four Autobiographical Narratives, Zitkala-sauml; (Gertrude Bonnin).
Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : London : Vision Press
ISBN 13 : 9780854780761
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book First Person Singular written by A. Robert Lee and published by London : Vision Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy A. Kass
Publisher : Jackdaw Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781566960939
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book American Lives written by Amy A. Kass and published by Jackdaw Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of diverse American lives, presented firsthand by those who lived them, is an excellent way for students to become more
Author : Susan Clair Imbarrato
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572330122
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-century American Autobiography written by Susan Clair Imbarrato and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious work, Susan Clair Imbarrato examines the changes in the American autobiographical voice as it speaks through the transition from a colonial society to an independent republic.Imbarrato charts the development of early American autobiography from the self-examination mode of the Puritan journal and diary to the self-inventive modes of eighteenth-century writings, which in turn anticipate the more romantic voices of nineteenth-century American literature. She focuses especially on the ways in which first-person narrative displayed an ever-stronger awareness of its own subjectivity. The eighteenth century, she notes, remained closer in temper to its Puritan communal foundations than to its Romantic progeny, but there emerged, nevertheless, a sense of the individual voice that anticipated the democratic celebration of the self. Through acts of self-examination, this study shows, self-construction became possible.In tracing this development, the author focuses on six writers in three literary genres. She begins with the spiritual autobiographies of Jonathan Edwards and Elizabeth Ashbridge and then considers the travel narratives of Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth House Trist. She concludes with an examination of political autobiography as exemplified in the writings of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. These authors, Imbarrato finds, were invigorated by their choices in a social-political climate that revered the individual in proper relationship to the republic. Their writings expressed a revolutionary spirit that was neither cynical nor despairing but one that evinced a shared conviction about the bond between self and community.
Author : Stephanie A. Sellers
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820479446
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Native American Autobiography Redefined written by Stephanie A. Sellers and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook
Author : Frank Luther Mott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Gallery of Americans written by Frank Luther Mott and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roland L. Williams Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313097151
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom written by Roland L. Williams Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-01-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slave narratives were one of the earliest forms of African American writing. These works, autobiographical in nature, later fostered other pieces of African American autobiography. Since the rise of Black Studies in the late 1960s, leading critics have constructed black lives and letters as antitheses of the ways and writings of mainstream American culture. According to such thinking, black writing stems from a set of experiences very different from the world of whites, and black autobiography must therefore differ radically from heroic white American tales. But in pointing to differences between black and white autobiographical works, these critics have overlooked the similarities. This volume argues that the African American autobiography is a continuation of the epic tradition, much as the prose narratives of voyage by white Americans in the nineteenth century likewise represent the evolution of the epic genre. The book makes clear that the writers of black autobiography have shared and shaped American culture, and that their works are very much a part of American literature. An introductory essay provides a theoretical framework for the chapters that follow. It discusses the origins of African American autobiography and the larger themes of the epic tradition that are common to the works of both black and white authors. The book then pairs representative African American autobiographies with similar works by white writers. Thus the volume matches Olaudah Equiano's slave narrative with The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave with Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl with Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall. The study indicates that these various works all recognize the importance of learning as a means for attaining freedom. The final chapter provides a broad survey of the African American autobiography.
Author : Gordon O. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349090468
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Studies in Modern American Autobiography written by Gordon O. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric D. Lamore
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299309800
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Reading African American Autobiography written by Eric D. Lamore and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1760s to Barack Obama, this collection offers fresh looks at classic African American life narratives; highlights neglected African American lives, texts, and genres; and discusses the diverse outpouring of twenty-first-century memoirs.
Author : James Silas Rogers
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813229189
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Irish-American Autobiography written by James Silas Rogers and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish-American Autobiography opens a new window on the shifting meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, by looking at a range of works that have never before been considered as a distinct body of literature. Opening with celebrity memoirs from athletes like boxer John L. Sullivan and ballplayer Connie Mack - written when the Irish were eager to put their raffish origins behind them - later chapters trace the many tensions, often unspoken, registered by Irish Americans who've told their life stories. New York saloonkeepers and South Boston step dancers set themselves against the larger culture, setting a pattern of being on the outside looking in. Even the classic 1950s TV comedy The Honeymooners speaks to the urban Irish origins, and the poignant sense of exclusion felt by its creator Jackie Gleason. Catholicism, so key to the identity of earlier generations of Irish Americans, has also evolved. One chapter looks at the painful diffidence of priest autobiographers, and others reveal how traditional Irish Catholic ideas of the guardian angel and pilgrimage have evolved and stayed potent down to our own time. Irish-American Autobiography becomes, in the end, a story of a continued search for connection - documenting an "ethnic fade" that never quite happened.
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 045147144X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Classic American Autobiographies written by William L. Andrews and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection of autobiographies—including those of Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, and more... A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), perhaps the first American bestseller, recounts this thirty-nine-year-old woman’s harrowing months as the captive of Narragansett Indians. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771–1789), the most famous of all American autobiographies, gives a lively portrait of a chandler’s son who became a scientist, inventor, educator, diplomat, humorist—and a Founding Father of this land. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), the gripping slave narrative that helped change the course of American history, reveals the true nature of the black experience in slavery. Old Times on the Mississippi (1875), Mark Twain’s unforgettable account of a riverboat pilot’s life, established his signature style and shows us the metamorphosis of a man into a writer. Four Autobiographical Narratives (1900–1902), published in the Atlantic Monthly by Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), also known as Gertrude Bonnin, provide us with a voice too seldom heard: a Native American woman fighting for her culture in the white man’s world. Edited and with an Introduction by William L. Andrews and an Afterword by Paul John Eakin
Author : Timothy Dow Adams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639408
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography written by Timothy Dow Adams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic. Adams focuses on five modern American writers whose autobiographies are particularly complex because of apparent lies that permeate them. In examining their stories, Adams shows that lying in autobiography, especially literary autobiography, is not simply inevitable. Rather it is often a deliberate, highly strategic decision on the author's part. Throughout his analysis, Adams's standard is not literal accuracy but personal authenticity. He attempts to resolve some of the paradoxes of recent autobiographical theory by looking at the classic question of design and truth in autobiography from the underside -- with a focus on lying rather than truth. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Megan Brown
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299310302
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book American Autobiography After 9/11 written by Megan Brown and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post-9/11 era, a flood of memoirs has wrestled with anxieties both personal and national.
Author : James Craig Holte
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313244634
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Ethnic I written by James Craig Holte and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From colonial times to the present, traveler and immigrant writers have seen America with new eyes. They have perceived and recorded the American experience as few native-born writers could do, yet their lives and words have often been left out of traditional American studies. This book provides an overview of ethnic-American personal writing with descriptive studies of more than twenty-five major autobiographies. In addition to providing biographical information about the writers, and bibliographical data about their tests, the volume presents both descriptions and analyses of the selected narratives.
Author : Arnold Krupat
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299140243
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Native American Autobiography written by Arnold Krupat and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: Native American Autobiography is the first collection to bring together the major autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present._ The thirty narratives included here cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years. From the earliest known written memoir--a 1768 narrative by the Reverend Samson Occom, a Mohegan, reproduced as a chapter here--to recent reminiscences by such prominent writers as N. Scott Momaday and Gerald Vizenor, the book covers a broad range of Native American experience. Editor Arnold Krupat provides a general introduction, a historical introduction to each of the seven sections, extensive headnotes for each selection, and suggestions for further reading, making this an ideal resource for courses in American literature, history, anthropology, and Native American studies. General readers, too, will find a wealth of fascinating material in the life stories of these Native American men and women.
