Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

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

• ISBN13: 9780822332138
• ISBN10: 0822332132
• Format: Paperback
• 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

Foreword

Self/Discipline: An Introduction

Language and Literature

Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription

Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet

Three Readings of the Wife of Bath

Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays

Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor

Following the Voice of the Draft

Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing

History

Tribute to Robert D. Marcus

Journey/man: Hi/s/tory

Religion

From God of the Oppressed

Philosophy

Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss

Maternal Thinking

Africana Studies

Altered States

Art History

History of an Encounter

Music

Devouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks

Film

When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre

Filming Point of View

Anthropology

From The Broken Cord

Juban America

Close Encounters with a CSA: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist

Law

The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing)

English Education

My Father/ My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status

Research Psychology

Adventures of a Woman in Science

Biology

Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist's Life in Biology

Medicine

That Disorder: An Introduction

A Textbook Pregnancy

Math, Psychology, and Science Education

Personal Thinking

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

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