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Volume 17, Issue 2 (Winter 2002)

Table of Contents

“Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier: Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War Memoir” by Alex Vernon

“Viewing Poems as ‘Bloodstains’: Sylvia Plath’s Confessional Poetics and the Autobiographical Reader” by Janet Badia

“Postpositivist Realism and Mandala: Toward Reconciliation and Reunification of Vietnamese and American Identities in Andrew X. Pham’s Catfish and Mandala” by Anita J. Duneer

“Ghost Selves: The (Auto)biographical Voices of Mothertalk” by Joanne Saul

“Marked Bodies, Marking Time: Reclaiming the Warrior in Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals” by Cynthia Wu

“Black by Popular Demand: Contemporary Autobiography and the Passing Theme” by Juda Bennett

“Spilling Ink and Spilling Blood: Abolitionism, Violence, and Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom” by Eric A. Goldman

Reviews

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (U of Minnesota P, 2001). Reviewed by Timothy Dow Adams

The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore (Cornell UP, 2001). Reviewed by Lynn Domina

The Ethics of Autobiography: Replacing the Subject in Modern Spain by Angel G. Loureiro (Vanderbilt UP, 2000). Reviewed by Andres Villagra

The Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe by Eugene L. Stelzig (UP of Virginia, 2000). Reviewed by Tom Smith

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