.... Margaret D. Bauer, East Carolina University Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir. By Michael Awkward. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 208 pp. $25.00. Michael Awkward navigates the territory of the...

... , $72.00 ; paper , $25.95 ; e-book available . Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market . By Rak Julie . Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press . 2013 . viii , 249 pp. Paper , $29.99 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Reginald Dyck Duke University Press 2006 A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago . By Richard Christiansen. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 317 pp. $29.95. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 . By...

...Jennifer T. Kennedy Duke University Press 2000 Jennifer T. Parricide of Memory: Thomas Jefferson’s Kennedy Memoir and the French Revolution 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 97 of 237 Thomas...

...David Kazanjian Duke University Press 2001 David Charles Brockden Brown’s Biloquial Nation: Kazanjian National Culture and White Settler Colonialism in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist Toward the beginning of Charles Brockden Brown’s...

... generative platform for cross-cultural understanding. Twitchell posits that this turn can be productively situated in relation to two seemingly unconnected “problem” genres of U.S. literature: representations of Africa and memoirs of suffering. By positioning What Is the What —the fictionalized autobiography...

...Joycelyn Moody This essay examines the second of two virtually unknown texts coauthored by Frances Whipple (Green McDougal) and Elleanor Eldridge, both of Providence, Rhode Island: Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (1838) and Elleanor's Second Book (1839). Whereas the Memoirs exclusively chronicles...

...) and Sylvia Beach's memoir Shakespeare and Company (1956) use ideas about consumer capitalism espoused by U.S. consumer elites (policy makers, industrialists, and public relations professionals) to construe their authors as American modernists. In these two texts, Stein and Beach regard consumption as...

...Robin Bernstein Abstract This essay historicizes Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home in the context of the presidency of George W. Bush. Bechdel created Fun Home from 1999 through 2005—dates that corresponded with Bush’s campaign, election, and presidency. As Bechdel frequently laments in...

...Kate McCullough Abstract This article assesses the queer world-making potentiality of the comics form as demonstrated in Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home . By deploying the temporal openings of the graphic form, Fun Home challenges the putative fixity of heteronormative family time and...

..., and theorized a new way forward for the avant-garde. This scene has been the subject of anthologies, academic studies, and now memoirs that present the history of Language poetry largely on its own terms. Kaplan's essay argues, however, that central positions associated with Language poetry first took...

... recent changes in industry—in this case, the publishing industry—have impacted cul- tural production. Specifically, she examines the so-called memoir boom of the last decade, which gives name to a dramatic rise in the publication of and popu- lar interest in memoirs. Rak argues that memoir as a...

... Autobiography. Resisting the confu- sion of author with text, Anderson considers “a book, not a man” (1). The intro- duction reviews the memoir’s challenging textual history not to resolve chal- lenges of reading but to enrich them. And Anderson offers nothing less than his own ethos of reading wherein...

... Autobiography after 9/11 , Megan Brown focuses on the cultural work done by memoir and other forms of life writing, analyzing the way that autobiographical texts reflect the problems and possibilities for living a meaningful life in the post-9/11 era. Lee-Potter’s wide-ranging book traces the collective...

..., Harry Lehr, when they reported his outrageous social performances. A conventional socialite’s memoir in most ways, “King Lehr” tracks in breathless prose the lavish lifestyle of the most elite New Yorkers during the first decade of the twentieth century.- For mally, too, Lehr’s memoir is...

...: A Memoir. By Michael Awkward. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 208 pp. $25.00. Michael Awkward navigates the territory of the academic memoir by using his commencement exercises as reference...

... on 48). Here Whitman developed two innovations, argues Cushman. One was a bottom-up perspective, telling the stories of individual soldiers in contrast to the officers’ memoirs that proliferated following the war. Another was a claim to represent the general by means of the particular, which Cushman...

... alternative solution. Marshal- ing evidence from newspapers, letters, and memoirs, he proposes that Poe was followed on a fateful boat and train trip by three brothers of Elmira Shelton, a wealthy widow of...

...; autobiographies and biographies, the cultural work of life writing texts; testimonio; genres of life writing in ethnic contexts; travel and travel writing; family memoirs; narra- tive perspectives in history and auto/biography; questions of ethics in life writing; autobiography, history, and law; concepts of...

... prefer it to France, the country he lived in for most of the New Negro Renaissance. In his lively memoir, A Long Way from Home (1937), McKay enthuses over Spain’s alleged primitivism and paganism, claiming that it retained its premodern, pre-Enlightenment mood notwithstanding Western bourgeoisification...