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Autobiographical writing across the disciplines : a reader / edited by Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey ; foreword by Ruth Behar.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autobiographies.
- Autobiography--Authorship.
- Autobiography.
- English language--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Interdisciplinary approach in education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (507 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Ruth Behar
- Self/discipline: an introduction / Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey
- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- Finding the right word: self-inclusion and self-inscription / David Bleich
- Gender tragedies: East Texas cockfighting and Hamlet / Carlos L. Dews
- Three readings of the wife of Bath / Merrill Black
- Listening to the images: my sightless insights into Yeat's plays / David Richman
- Activist academic: memoir of an ethnic lit professor / Bonnie Tusmith
- Following the voice of the draft / Donald M. Murray
- Notes of a native daughter: reflections on identity and writing / Carla L. Peterson
- HISTORY
- Tribute to Robert D. Marcus / David Bleich
- Journey/man: hi/s/tory / Robert D. Marcus
- RELIGION
- From God of the opproessed / James Cone
- PHILOSOPHY
- Beyond Holocaust theology: extending a hand across the abyss / Laura Duhan Kaplan
- Material thinking / Sara Ruddick
- AFRICANA STUDIES
- Altered states / Kwame Anthony Appiah
- ART HISTORY
- History of an encounter / Eunice Lipton
- MUSIC
- Devouring music: ruminations of a composer who cooks / Peter Hamlin
- FILM
- When the body is your own: feminist film criticism and the horror genre / Julie Tharp
- Filming point of view / Deborah Lefkowitz
- ANTHROPOLOGY
- From The broken cord / Michael Dorris
- Juban America / Ruth Behar
- Close encounters with a CSA: the reflections of a bruised and somewhat wiser anthropologist / Laura B. Delind
- LAW
- The death of the profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing) / Patricia J. Williams
- ENGLISH EDUCATION
- My father/my censor: English education, politics, and status / Brenda Daly
- RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGY
- Adventures of a woman in science / Naomi Weisstein
- BIOLOGY
- Through the looking glass: a feminist's life in biology / Muriel Lederman
- MEDICINE
- That disorder: an introduction / Alice Wexler
- A textbook pregnancy / Perri Klass
- MATH, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SCIENCE EDUCATION
- Personal thinking / Seymour Papert.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-481).
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06460-X
- 9786613064608
- 0-8223-8496-5
- OCLC:
- 191222133
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