Terms Of Identity: Essays On The Theoretical Terminology Of Lifewriting
Guest Editors: Timothy Dow Adams with Barry N. Olshen
Table of Contents
“Introduction: Term Limits” by Timothy Dow Adams with Barry N. Olshen
“Subject, Persona, and Self in the Theory of Autobiography” by Barry N. Olshen
“Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance” by Sidonie Smith
“Authority” by G. Thomas Couser
“Between Text and Image: The Literary Portrait” by Jeffrey Wallen
“Immersion” by Kay K. Cook
“One Day at a Time: The Diary as Lifewriting” by Robert A. Fothergill
“Intercultural Autobiography” by Jan Walsh Hokenson
“Bios in Women’s Autobiography” by Helen M. Buss
Other Essays
“The Gay Lifewriting of Reinaldo Arenas: Antes que anochezca” by Robert Richmond Ellis
Reviews
Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women’s Self-Representation by Leigh Gilmore (Cornell UP, 1994). Reviewed by Dawn E. Keetley
Autobiographical Quests: Augustine, Montaigne, Rousseau, and Wordsworth by Elizabeth de Mijolla (UP of Virginia, 1994). Reviewed by Sara Murphy
Sacred Estrangement: The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography by Peter A. Dorsey (Pennsylvania State UP, 1993).
The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion by Gerald Peters (U of Massachusetts P, 1993).
Reviewed by Lori Askeland
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