Table of Contents
“Forms of Self-Disclosure in the Lyrical Essay” by Susannah B. Mintz
“Vested Interests: The Con Artist, the Historian, and the Feminist Biographer” by Jenny Coleman
“Navigating Cape Horn: Negative Near-Death Experiences in Philippe Labro’s Dark Tunnel, White Light“ by Kathy Comfort
“Intimately Strange Societies: Cultural Translation in Travel Memoirs of Origin” by Mary Besmeres
“Tragicomic Autobiography: Kathleen Tamagawa’s Holy Prayers in a Horse’s Ear” by Floyd Cheung
“Taking Oneself Seriously: Autobiography, Comedy and Occasional Writing in Kurt Vonnegut’s Fates Worse than Death“ by John O’Brien
“Coming to Knowledge: Elizabeth Isham’s Autobiography and the Self-Construction of an Intellectual Woman” by Julie A. Eckerle
“Making the Case for Self-narration Against Autofiction” by Arnaud Schmitt
Reviews
New Essays on Life Writing and the Body. Ed. Christopher Stuart and Stephanie Todd (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009). Reviewed by Claire Lynch
Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women’s Life Writing. By Katherine Adams (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009). Reviewed by Jacqueline Edmondson
The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Kruschev to Putin. By Benjamin M. Sutcliffe (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2009). Reviewed by Christina Houen
The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet. By Julian North (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009). Reviewed by Sandra Pinasco
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