Table of Contents
“Is There Canon of Autobiography?” by Eugene Stelzig
“The Autobiographies of Glasnost: The Question of Genre in Russian Autobiographical Memoirs of the 1980s” by Marina Balina
“The Presentation of Linguistic Variation in Autobiographical Writing” by Donna Glee Williams
“Twice Other, Once Shy: Nineteenth-Century Black Women Autobiographers and the American Literary Tradition of Self-Effacement” by Jocelyn K. Moody
“Rhetorical Defenses: The Autobiographies of World War I Conscientious Objectors” by Robert F. Sayre
“‘The Faint Thin Line’: Temporal and Linguistic Discontinuity in Modern Love” by Paul H. Schmidt
“Assembling Ingredients: Subjectivity in Meatless Days” by Linda Warley
Reviews
Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé by Leah D. Hewitt (U of Nebraska P, 1990). Reviewed by Marilyn Yalom
American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. Paul John Eakin (U of Wisconsin P, 1991). Reviewed by G. Thomas Couser
Located Lives: Place and Idea in Southern Autobiography. Ed. J. Bill Berry (U of Georgia P, 1990). Reviewed by Rose Norman
Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou by Dolly A. McPherson (Peter Lang, 1991). Reviewed by Geneva Cobb-Moore
Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography by Mark Twain. Ed. Michael J. Kiskis (U of Wisconsin P, 1990). Reviewed by Maria Ornella Marotti
Availability
Out of Print: A photocopy may be ordered for $25 plus shipping.
