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Aural History / by Ashtor, Gila

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Edward Phelan and the ILO the life and views of an international social actor.

Table of Contents: “…Phelan, the man -- pt. 2. The memoirs of Edward Phelan : the birth of the ILO -- pt. 3. …”
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Memory maps the state and Manchuria in postwar Japan / by Tamanoi, Mariko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "Manchuria" in postwar Japan -- Oral histories -- Repatriate memoirs -- Orphans' memories -- Chinese people's memories -- Conclusions : "The State" and nostalgia in postwar Japan.…”
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What they saved pieces of a Jewish past / by Miller, Nancy K., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Saving the name -- pt. 3. Memoirs of a wondering Jew.…”
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Art in turmoil : the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 /

Table of Contents: “…Artists remember : two memoirs -- part 3. Meanings then and now -- part 4. …”
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A re-visioning of love : dark feminine rising / by Mozol, Ana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A memoir of descent -- The demon lover: becoming the bride of Hades -- Embracing the mystery -- The false bridegroom -- Jung and the demon lover -- Salomé -- Epilogue -- Conclusion.…”
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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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A reader's guide to Nabokov's "Lolita" by Connolly, Julian W.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of Lolita -- The precursors of Lolita -- Approaching Lolita -- Who was Dolly Haze? -- Humbert's memoir, Nabokov's novel: a reader's analysis -- Lolita's afterlife: critical and cultural responses.…”
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Manic minds mania's mad history and its neuro-future / by Hermsen, Lisa M., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Mania multiplies with fury : textbook descriptions -- The maniac and the iconography of reform -- Midwestern mania : genetics in the heartland -- Manic lives : mad memoirs -- Neuropsychiatry, pharmacology, and imaging the new mania.…”
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The little everyman stature and masculinity in eighteenth-century English literature / by Armintor, Deborah Needleman

Table of Contents: “…A visual prehistory -- The dwarfing of little-man Pope -- The little man: microscope in Brobdingnag -- The labor of little men -- The little man of feeling -- Josef Boruwl Aski's memoirs -- Of the celebrated dwarf.…”
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Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805 by Wallace, Miriam L.

Table of Contents: “…Ives (1792) and Hermsprong (1796) -- Female suffering and witnessing subjects in Hays's The victim of prejudice (1799) -- Subjects of property and The memoirs of Bryan Perdue (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin re-visions and relational subjects in Edmund Oliver (1798) and Adeline Mowbray (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin parody and the reformist continuum: Memoirs of modern philosophers (1805) -- Conclusion: revolutionary subjectivities and rights discourse.…”
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Saussure by Joseph, John E.

Table of Contents: “…The world into which he was born -- pt. 2. Early years to the mémoire -- pt. 3. Doctorate and Paris years -- pt. 4. …”
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Beware of limbo dancers a correspondent's adventures with the New York Times / by Reed, Roy, 1930-

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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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Fanny Hill in Bombay The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland / by Gladfelder, Hal

Table of Contents: “…Fanny Hill in Bombay [1728-40] -- Down and out in Lisbon and London [1741-48] -- Sodomites [1748-49] -- Three memoirs [1748-52] -- The hack [1749-59] -- The man of feeling [1752-68] -- A Briton [1757-87].…”
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Fanny Hill in Bombay : The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland / by Gladfelder, Hal

Table of Contents: “…Fanny Hill in Bombay [1728-40] -- Down and out in Lisbon and London [1741-48] -- Sodomites [1748-49] -- Three memoirs [1748-52] -- The hack [1749-59] -- The man of feeling [1752-68] -- A Briton [1757-87].…”
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Fanny Hill in Bombay : The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland / by Gladfelder, Hal

Table of Contents: “…Fanny Hill in Bombay [1728-40] -- Down and out in Lisbon and London [1741-48] -- Sodomites [1748-49] -- Three memoirs [1748-52] -- The hack [1749-59] -- The man of feeling [1752-68] -- A Briton [1757-87].…”
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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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