Auto/biography and mediation / edited by Alfred Hornung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hornung, Alfred.

International Auto/Biography Association. Conference 2006 : Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)

Series:

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 190.

American studies, 0178-1987 ; volume 190

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Congresses.

Autobiography.

Biography as a literary form--Congresses.

Biography as a literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (588 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Winter, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

HauptbeschreibungThe essays by American, Asian, Australian and European critics collected here demonstrate the opening up of auto/biography studies to the border-crossing implied by the concept of mediation: processes of social and cultural translation are examined in various forms - from photographic self-representation to oral histories - and practices, from media coverage through marketing of written lives to performing the self. These essays reveal that auto/biography goes much further than the narrow examination of an individual's life; for instance, life narratives intersect h

Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Writing and Reading Lives; Craig Howes - Doing Biograpy; Manuela Costantino - The Sensational Life of Latifa; Emily Hipchen - Mediating Truths in Adoption Search Narratives; Mediational Failures; Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith - Intimacies of Power; Laurie McNeill - Memory Failure; Susan Tridgell - Autobiographies of Asylum and Detention; 2. Mediating Historiers; Gabriele Linke - ""What happend to the story?""; Britta Feyerabend - Quilting Auto/Biographies; Mirjam Truwant - Female Authorship an the Idea of the German Nation, 1859 to 1939

Marijke Huisman - Selling the Self: Publishing and Marketing...3. Media Loops; Susanna Egan - Auto/Biographical Impostures as Media Sensations; Carmen Birkle - Meditation and Appropriation; Hannes Schweiger - Borderless Identities?; Julia Rak - Identity's Industry: Genre and Memoirs; Xu Dejin - China Narratives, Mediation, and the Problemati of Readership; Jeremy D. Popkin - Academic Autobiography; 4. Relational Selves; Roger D. Sell - Mediational Ethics in Churchill's ""My Early Life""; Micha Gerrit, Philipp Edlich - Connecting Selves with Kitkitdizze...

Leili Golafshani - Negative Relational AutobiographyRichard Freadman - ""What for do I have to remember this""""; 5. Inventing the Self; Eugene Stelzig - Hermann Hesse's Fantastic Mediation(s) of the Self in ""Steppenwolf""; Ioana Luca - Between Two Worlds; Johan Callens - Auto/Biography in American Performance; Michael K. Glenday - Norman Mailer: Biography and Imaginary Memoir; 6. Crossing Genres; Manfred Mittermayer - Intermediality in Thomas Bernhard's Autobiography; Regine Strätling - Potential Autobiographies; Heidi Isaksen - The Role of Border-Crossing in Mediating Dominated Voices

Shannon Donaldson-McHugh - Performing Autobiographical Limits7. Religion and Meditation; Bärbel Höttges - No God's Land; Sabine N. Meyer - Writing the Life of a Controversial Historical Figure; Kerstin Vogel - Mediating Native Lives; John D. Barbour - Tribal Religions in Modern Travel Narratives by Greene, Lévi-Strauss, and Chatwin; 8. Mediating Roots and Routes; Evelyn Hawthorne and Paul Vanouse - Race, Jamaican Bodies, and Eugenics/Genomics; Mary Montemayor - ""Breaking the Silence; Yvonne Gutenberger - Anne Moody's ""Coming of Age in Mississippi""

Sam Raditlhalo - Migrations of Texts: Mediating Double ModernitiesAlexander J. Beissenhirtz - Jazz Autobiographies as Vernacular Literature; Sabine Sörgel - ""Like an endless stream of lava and love...""; Chris Barry - Cultural Dialogues and Self-Constructions in Australia; 9. Speaking with the Dead; Zhang Xin-Ke - Tombstone Inscription and Chinese Biography; Jianqiu Sun - Photograpy and Psychography; Deborah Holmes - Portraits of a Lady; Bernhard Fetz - Performance and Mediality

Notes:

Papers presented at the 5th IABA conference, Mainz, July 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783825373092

3825373096

OCLC:

774272337