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Academic lives : memoir, cultural theory, and the university today / Cynthia G. Franklin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Cynthia G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autobiography--Authorship.
- Autobiography.
- College teachers as authors--United States.
- College teachers as authors.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- College teachers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Bérubé, Cathy N. Davidson, Jane Gallop, bell hooks, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, and Marianna Torgovnick, Academic Lives considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry.
- Contents:
- The academic memoir movement
- Whiteness studies and institutional autobiography
- Postcolonial studies and memoirs of travel, diaspora, and exile
- Feminist studies and the academic star system
- Disability studies and institutional interventions
- Conclusion: memoir and the post-September 11 academy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781282553507
- 128255350X
- 9780820335872
- 0820335878
- OCLC:
- 593297328
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