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The memoir and the memoirist reading and writing personal narrative / by Larson, Thomas, 1949-

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Find your story, write your memoir by Miller, Lynn, 1951-

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Fearless confessions a writer's guide to memoir / by Silverman, Sue William

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Academic lives memoir, cultural theory, and the university today / by Franklin, Cynthia G.

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Gathering noise from my life a camouflaged memoir / by Anderson, Donald, 1946 July 9-

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Writing gender writing self : memory, memoir and autobiography /

Table of Contents: “…Sexuality, Self and Body: Reading Michèle Roberts' Memoir Paper Houses 12. Vocalizing the Voiceless: Struggle for a Personal Voice in Maxine Hong Kingston's TheWoman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 13. …”
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"Closer to the truth than any fact" memoir, memory, and Jim Crow / by Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-

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Dying in character : memoirs on the end of life / by Berman, Jeffrey, 1945-

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Stories of the Soviet experience memoirs, diaries, dreams / by Paperno, Irina

“…Soviet experience : memoirs, diaries, dreams…”
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Repossessing the world reading memoirs by contemporary women / by Buss, Helen M.

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Between literature and history the diaries and memoirs of Mary Leadbeater and Dorothea Herbert / by Hughes, Barbara, 1948-

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Signifying bodies disability in contemporary life writing / by Couser, G. Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the some body memoir -- Paradigms cost: disability and cultural representation -- Rhetoric and self-representation in disability memoir -- Double exposure: performing conjoined twinship -- Identity, identicality, and life writing: telling (the silent) twins apart -- Autoethnography and developmental disability: riding the bus with my sister -- Disability as metaphor: what's wrong with Lying -- Lucy Grealy and the some body obituary -- Life writing and disability law: undoing hardship -- Epilogue: the new disability memoir.…”
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Soft weapons autobiography in transit / by Whitlock, Gillian, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Arablish : the Baghdad blogger -- The skin of the burka : recent life narratives from Afghanistan -- Testimony incarnate : read my lips -- Branding : the veiled best-seller -- Tainted testimony : the work of scandal -- Embedded : memoir and correspondents -- The pangs of exile : memoir out of Iran -- Bookends : autographics.…”
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The work of life writing : essays and lectures / by Couser, G. Thomas

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AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION : overwriting the dictator. by Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Impossible Autobiography: Women's Life Writing and Twentieth-Century Latin American Dictatorships -- 1 I Remember Trujillo: Trujillo en Mis Memorias: Denial, Shame, Martyrdom, and Nostalgia in Dominican Women's Memoir -- Remembering Trujillo: The Memoir Boom -- Dictator as Tragic Hero: Aída Trujillo and the Shadow of Third-Person Memoir -- The Daughter and the Demi-God: Fugitive Acts in Flor de Oro Trujillo's Memoir Exposé…”
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Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Faithful Transgressions In The American West Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Stages of life Indian theatre autobiographies / by Hansen, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…Pioneers to professionals: a retrospective of the Parsi theatre -- Theatrical memoirs and the archives of autobiography -- Narayan Prasad Betab, The deeds of Betab -- Radheshyam Kathavachak, My theatre days -- Jayshankar Sundari, Some blossoms, some tears -- Fida Husain, Fifty years in the Parsi theatre -- Self and subjectivity in autobiographical criticism -- Voices and silences: reading the texts.…”
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