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Volume 15, Issue 2 (Winter 2000)

Autobiographical Que(E)Ries

Guest Editor: Thomas C. Spear

Table of Contents

“Introduction: Autobiographical, Queer We’s” by Thomas C. Spear

“‘This Killing Machine Called America’: Narrative of the Body in David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives” by Eric Waggoner

“The Homecoming Queen: The Reconstruction of Home in Queer Life-Narratives” by Yaakov Perry

“Scripting Autobiographical Subjectivity Online: Confessions of a Latina Cyber-Slut” by Juana Maria Rodriguez

“Memoralizing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing in Tongues Untied and Black Is Black Aint” by Harvey Young

“Edmund White on Queer Autofiction, Biography, and Sidafiction” by Thomas C. Spear

Other Essays

“Autobiography, Mourning and Reparation: The Case of Melanie Klein” by Hilary Clark

“John Updike’s Self-Consciousness and Literary Fame” by Joe Moran

Reviews

Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette by Paul Robinson (U of Chicago P, 1999. Reviewed by Lawrence Normand

Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography by Oliver S. Buckton (U of North Carolina P, 1998). Reviewed by Terence Hoagwood

Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity by Crispin Sartwell (U of Chicago P, 1998). Reviewed by Lori Askeland

Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography by Susan Clair Imbarrato (U of Tennessee P, 1998). Reviewed by Gordon Sayre

Availability

In Print: $15/$30

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