...Robert J. Patterson In this essay, I argue that Ernest Gaines’s (1971) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman deploys black freedom struggles as points of departure to elucidate the shortcomings of what I theorize as exodus politics. I employ the phrase “exodus politics” to articulate the political...

...Catherine Liu 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Catherine Liu Getting to the Photo Finish: Photography, Autobiography, Modernity It is difficult not to ignore photography’s subtle hegemony and its effects on the very notion...

...Kathleen McHugh Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Kathleen McHugh Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography To be content with the easy pleasures of the feminine is to lose a fundamental opportunity: an opportunity to precisely use our material experiences to map out the changing...

...Stephen J. Whitfield Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical . Edited by Olney James . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1980 . Pp. 360 . $28.50 (cloth), $9.75 (paper). Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 234 The South Atlantic Quarterly gests...

...Donald T. Torchiana Seventy Years: Being the Autobiography of Lady Gregory . Edited with a Foreword by Smythe Colin . New York : Macmillan Publishing Company , 1976 . Pp. vi , 538 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 BO-OKS Seventy Years: Being...

...Lodwick Hartley Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England . By Spacks Patricia Myer . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1976 . Pp. 342 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 258 South Atlantic Quarterly Gallaher concludes...

...Roger J. Porter Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Edwin Muir and Autobiography: Archetype of a Redemptive Memory Roger J. Porter I Among the appeals of reading an autobiography is its evocation of the writer s past, especially when the writer perceives that time as englobed...

...Brooke Hopkins Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Pear-Stealing and Other Faults: An Essay on Confessional Autobiography Brooke Hopkins I Paul Ricoeur, in his book The Symbolism ofEvil, has written of confes­ sion that through it the consciousness of fault is brought...

...James Olney The Forms of Autobiography: Episodes in the History of a Literary Genre . By Spengemann William C. . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1980 . Pp. xvii , 254 . $19.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 369 The Forms of Autobiography...

...William H. Wannamaker Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 The Autobiography of Richard Wagner* William H. Wannamaker Professor of German in Trinity College It is fortunately not a rare thing for a great craftsman in some line of human endeavor to be so concerned about his memory...

... in nineteenthcentury England. If Froude was treated in the way Professor Dunn implies, one cannot help wondering how laurels were placed on the brows of some others of those who won public favor. W. T. Laprade. A NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Magnificent Illusion. By E. Boyd Barrett New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. 321 pp...

...Minnie C. Yarborough Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 RAMBLES WITH WASHINGTON IRVING QUOTATIONS FROM AN UNPUBLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM C. PRESTON MINNIE C. YARBOROUGH p\O FEW of his friends was Irving more warmly attached J. than he was to William C. Preston, the son...

...Barrett John Mandel Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography . By Olney James . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1972 . Pp. 342 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 BOOKS Metaphors of Self: The Meaning oj Autobiography. By James Olney...

.... This is no small contribution, but rather one which should serve to put Josephus within reach of many who might be put off by Daniels own voluminous autobiography. BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY DAVID C. ROLLER Mau Mau from Within: Autobiography and Analysis of Kenya s Peasant Revolt. By Donald L. Barnett...

...P. F. Baum Memories and Opinions: An Unfinished Autobiography . By Q. Edited with an Introduction, by Roberts S. C. . Cambridge : at the University Press ; New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. xiii , 106 . $1.50 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 452...

... and dispassionate; and he has written with vigor and clarity on phases of military history sometimes confusing to the layman. It seems unlikely that this biography will be superseded for a very long time. R. h. Woody. Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. Pp...

...Frances Acomb Pursuit of Understanding: Autobiography of an Education . By Dunn Esther Cloudman . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. x , 229 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 522 The South Atlantic Quarterly party with a speech denouncing her...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Journey to the End of an Era: An Informal Autobiography . By Hall Melvin . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1947 . Pp. 438 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 123 bridled criticisms of British policy in many other...

...Harold T. Parker Personal Equation: An Autobiography . By Guérard Albert . New York : W. W. Norton and Company , 1948 . Pp. 317 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 138 The South Atlantic Quarterly genius of a General Marshall and the tactical genius...

...Robert H. Woody The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His “Travels Through Life” together with his “Commonplace Book” for 1789-1813 . Edited with introduction and notes by Corner George W. . Published for The American Philosophical Society by the Princeton University Press , 1948 . Pp...