Search Results - "Memoir"

Out of Brownsville : encounters with Nobel laureates and other Jewish writers : a cultural memoir / by Chametzky, Jules

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Ghosts of the African Diaspora : Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity / by Chassot, Joanne

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Ghosts of the African Diaspora : Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity / by Chassot, Joanne

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Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / by Simmons, Merinda, 1981-

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Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / by Simmons, Merinda, 1981-

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta /…”
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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta /…”
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Fascinating rhythm reading jazz in American writing / by Yaffe, David, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…White Negroes and native sons : Blacks and Jews in words and music -- Listening to Ellison : transgression and tradition in Ellison's jazz writings -- Stomping the muse : jazz, poetry, and the problematic muse -- Love for sale : hustling the jazz memoir.…”
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Negotiating a perilous empowerment Appalachian women's literacies / by Locklear, Erica Abrams

Table of Contents: “…Appalachia on our pages: situating Appalachian literacy and literary analysis -- Shaping biscuit dough and rolling out steel: responding to literacy commodification in The dollmaker -- Narrating socialization: Linda Scott Derosier's memoirs -- "Overcoming" backgrounds: competing discourses in The unquiet earth -- Invasion of the mountain teachers: literacy campaigns and conflicts in Lee Smith's work.…”
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Telling the little secrets American Jewish writing since the 1980s / by Burstein, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.…”
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Keepin' it hushed the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric / by Nunley, Vorris

Table of Contents: “…Beyond difference: mapping and theorizing hush harbor spatiality rhetoric and knowledge -- Hush harbors: spatiality, race, and not-so-public spheres -- Wingin' it: barbershops and the work of nommo in the novel -- Poetic hush harbors: barbershops as black paideias -- Barbers and customers as philosophers in memoir and drama -- Commodifying neoliberal blackness: faux hush harbor rhetoric in barbershop -- Hush harbor pedagogy: pathos-driven hearing and pedagogy -- A question of ethics? …”
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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / by Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.…”
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Compelling confessions the politics of personal disclosure /

Table of Contents: “…Baird -- Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson -- Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman -- Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones -- Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. …”
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New directions in American reception study

Table of Contents: “…Blair -- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen -- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial González -- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin -- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Accuracy or fair play? …”
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