Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

by Freedman, Diane P.; Frey, Olivia; Behar, Ruth (CON); Bleich, David (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822332008
• ISBN10: 0822332000
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This collection brings a new kind of scholarship into focus: research that has a human face and speaks with a human voice. In these essays, knowledge comes alive for the reader because it has sprung from the lived experience of the investigator. The contributors are pioneers in their fields, blazing trails for future work in their disciplines."--Jane Tompkins, author of "A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xiii
Ruth Behar
Self/Discipline: An Introduction	1	(40)
Diane P. Freedman
Olivia Frey
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription	41	(27)
David Bleich
Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet	68	(17)
Carlos L. Dews
Three Readings of the Wife of Bath	85	(11)
Merrill Black
Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays	96	(18)
David Richman
Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor	114	(15)
Bonnie Tusmith
Following the Voice of the Draft	129	(9)
Donald M. Murray
Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing	138	(21)
Carla L. Peterson
HISTORY
Inbute to Robert D. Marcus	159	(2)
David Bleich
Journey/man: Hi/s/tory	161	(28)
Robert D. Marcus
RELIGION
From God of the Oppressed	189	(16)
James Cone
PHILOSOPHY
Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss	205	(11)
Laura Duhan Kaplan
Maternal Thinking	216	(17)
Sara Ruddick
AFRICANA STUDIES
Altered States	233	(24)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
ART HISTORY
History of an Encounter	257	(8)
Eunice Lipton
MUSIC
Devouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks	265	(16)
Peter Hamlin
FILM
When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre	281	(11)
Julie Tharp
Filming Point of View	292	(19)
Deborah Lefkowitz
ANTHROPOLOGY
From The Broken Cord	311	(20)
Michael Dorris
Juban America	331	(18)
Ruth Behar
Close Encounters with a CSA: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist	349	(16)
Laura B. Delind
LAW
The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing)	365	(10)
Patricia J. Williams
ENGLISH EDUCATION
My Father/My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status	375	(22)
Brenda Daly
RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGY
Adventures of a Woman in Science	397	(20)
Naomi Weisstein
BIOLOGY
Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist's Life in Biology	417	(18)
Muriel Lederman
MEDICINE
That Disorder: An Introduction	435	(9)
Alice Wexler
A Textbook Pregnancy	444	(11)
Perri Klass
MATH, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SCIENCE EDUCATION
Personal Thinking	455	(12)
Seymour Papert
Selected Bibliography	467	(16)
Contributors	483