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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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Eminent Maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me / by Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…1. Legs : a memoir of childhood and adolescence -- 2. Manuel Puig: the writer as diva -- 3. …”
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Eminent Maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me / by Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…1. Legs : a memoir of childhood and adolescence -- 2. Manuel Puig: the writer as diva -- 3. …”
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Prison Work : A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections / by Wilkinson, William Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introducing Dick Wilkinson -- Chino--an ideal beginning -- The California medical facility : starting it, and getting it to work -- My experience with everyday problems at CMF -- Trying to hold things together during change at CMF -- Soledad, 1977-1981 -- Reflecting on being an employee in the prison system -- How this memoir was produced.…”
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Prison Work : A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections / by Wilkinson, William Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introducing Dick Wilkinson -- Chino--an ideal beginning -- The California medical facility : starting it, and getting it to work -- My experience with everyday problems at CMF -- Trying to hold things together during change at CMF -- Soledad, 1977-1981 -- Reflecting on being an employee in the prison system -- How this memoir was produced.…”
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Evaluating evidence a positivist approach to reading sources on modern Japan / by Akita, George

Table of Contents: “…Japan's postwar positivists: the IHKM and YAKM Projects -- Reading primary documents: letters, ikensho, nikki, and memoirs--the pitfalls -- Hara Kei nikki and Eiin Hara Kei nikki compared: typos and other problems -- Now that we have these primary sources -- John W. …”
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Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / by Nussbaum, Felicity

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue.…”
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Making the Italians poetics and politics of Italian children's fantasy / by Myers, Lindsay, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Morphology and methodology -- The memoir fantasy: 1870-1896 -- The 'monello' fantasy: 1897-1908 -- The microcosmic fantasy: 1908-1915 -- The quest fantasy: 1915-1918 -- The surreal fantasy: 1919-1929 -- The superhero fantasy 1930-1939 -- The community fantasy: 1945-1950 -- The pinocchioesque fantasy: 1950-1980 -- The compensatory fantasy: 1980-2010.…”
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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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The postcolonial citizen the intellectual migrant / by Dutt-Ballerstadt, Reshmi

Table of Contents: “…Remapping home -- The arrival and the I-94: predicaments for entering and leaving -- Forging states of belonging: migrant memory, nation, and subjectivity in Meena Alexander's memoir Fault lines -- Double displacement, homelessness, and nomadism: questions of belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri's narratives -- Threatening bodies, dangerous knowledge, legal interventions -- The question of returns: irresolution of locations -- Conclusion.…”
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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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American Muslim women, religious authority, and activism more than a prayer / by Hammer, Juliane

Table of Contents: “…A woman-led Friday prayer: March 18, 2005 -- Women leading prayers: tracing the debate -- Gender justice and Qur'anic exegesis -- History, women's rights, and Islamic law -- Authority, tradition, community -- Space, leadership, voice -- Media, representation(s), politics -- Memoirs, narratives, and marketing -- Covers and other matters: concluding thoughts.…”
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The ideology of slavery proslavery thought in the antebellum South, 1830-1860 /

Table of Contents: “…Abolition of Negro slavery / Thomas Roderick Dew -- Memoir on slavery / William Harper -- A brief examination of scripture testimony on the institution of slavery / Thornton Stringfellow -- Letter to an English abolitionist / James Henry Hammond -- The natural history of the Caucasian and Negro races / Josiah C. …”
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Buried city, unearthing Teufelsberg : Berlin and its geography of forgetting / by Anderson, Benedict

Table of Contents: “…chapter Introduction: reflecting – above and below -- chapter 1 Ruins: self-portraiture, capturing, forgetting -- chapter 2 Memoirs: self-anaesthesia, cultural forgetting -- chapter 3 Burial: abandoning the city, physical forgetting -- chapter 4 Disappearance: planting the forest, natural forgetting -- chapter 5 New ground: unearthing Teufelsberg, against forgetting.…”
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The not so blank "blank page" the politics of narrative and the woman narrator in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English novel / by Tsomondo, Thorell Porter

Table of Contents: “…Locating the female voice : the politics of narrative and the question of "the blank page" -- Concerning leave to speak : Moll Flanders' suit -- Speaking of chastity, virtue, honor : the life of Harriot Stuart written by herself -- The entangled "I" : memoirs of Emma Courtney -- Meaning on the margin : the third-story frame in Jane Eyre -- There's a ghost in it : Esther's Portion of Bleak House -- Babel deferred?.…”
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Satire, history, novel narrative forms, 1665-1815 / by Palmeri, Frank

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: cultural paradigms, public spheres, and narrative forms -- The satiric almanac in history, 1665-1800 -- Satire and the historical-memoir novel, 1690-1740 -- Satire, philosophical history, and the historical novel, 1700-1815 -- Satire, conjectural history, and the bildungsroman, 1720-1795 -- Satire, novel, and forms of the public sphere, 1740-1800 -- Satire and utopia in conjectural history, 1750-1800.…”
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Romantic writing and the empire of signs periodical culture and post-Napoleonic authorship / by Fang, Karen Y.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : empire, periodicals, and late Romantic writing -- China for sale : porcelain economy in Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Deciphering The private memoirs : James Hogg's Napoleon complex -- "But another name for her who wrote" : Corinne and the making of Landon's giftbook style -- Only "a little above the usual run of periodical poesy" : Byron's Island and The liberal -- Conclusion : space, time, and the periodical collaborator.…”
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John McGahern and the art of memory by McCarthy, Dermot, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…John McGahern and the art of memory -- Orpheus triumphant: recovering the lost beloved: Memoir -- Reflections of the one thing: The barracks -- In the name of the father: The dark -- Breaking the moulds part I: The leavetaking (1974; rev. 1984) -- Breaking the moulds part II: The pornographer -- The end of father history: Amongst women -- The completed circle: That they may face the rising sun -- Conclusion: violence, dislocation, truth and vision.…”
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Popular trauma culture selling the pain of others in the mass media / by Rothe, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Talking cures -- Trauma camp -- Popular literature : reading the pain of others in misery memoirs. Selling misery -- Fake suffering -- Forging child abuse -- Simulating Holocaust survival -- Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.…”
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