Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A ReaderDiane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey Duke University Press, 2003 - 487 Seiten Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies and history, mathematics and medicine, philosophy, music, film, ethnic studies, law, education, anthropology, religion, and biology. Pioneers in the development of the hybrid genre of personal scholarship, the writers whose work is presented here challenge traditional modes of inquiry and ways of knowing. In assembling their work, editors Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey have provided a rich source of reasons for and models of autobiographical criticism. The editors’ introduction presents a condensed history of academic writing, chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism, and emphasizes the role of feminism in championing the value of personal narrative to disciplinary discourse. The essays are all explicitly informed by the identities of their authors, among whom are a feminist scientist, a Jewish filmmaker living in Germany, a potential carrier of Huntington’s disease, and a doctor pregnant while in medical school. Whether describing how being a professor of ethnic literature necessarily entails being an activist, how music and cooking are related, or how a theology is shaped by cultural identity, the contributors illuminate the relationship between their scholarly pursuits and personal lives and, in the process, expand the boundaries of their disciplines. Contributors: Kwame Anthony Appiah |
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... move others with our angel - winged words . We have a primitive faith in the power of a story well told . But we ourselves are very sophisticated . We are storytellers with Ph.D.s and academic jobs . We've studied hard and been rewarded ...
... move in scholarship in general , challenge categories and boundaries and are deeply interdisciplinary . They are integrated in natural , human , organic ways . In these selections we meet a musician who cooks , a mathematician with in ...
... move through the space occupied by other objects , and they cannot appear at two separate points in space without traveling from one point to the other " ( qtd . in Denton 8 ) . What do babies have to do with the issues of objective and ...
... move from a focus on suffering and distance to the possibilities of communication across the abyss , of time , of place , of generations , and of religion . She writes of her positions as woman , Jew , moral philosopher , and American ...
... move [ d ] from any made or done thing , to an intentional investigation , to a test of a theory , to finally a proof of , or evidence for , a claim " ( 65 ) . It would seem that several factors contributed to the shift in tone and ...
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SelfInclusion and SelfInscription | 41 |
East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet | 68 |
Three Readings of the Wife of Bath | 85 |
My Sightless Insights into Yeatss Plays | 96 |
Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor | 114 |
Following the Voice of the Draft | 129 |
Reflections on Identity and Writing | 138 |
Tribute to Robert D Marcus | 159 |
Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre | 281 |
Filming Point of View | 292 |
From The Broken Cord | 311 |
Juban America | 331 |
The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist | 349 |
The Death of the Profane a commentary on the genre of legal writing | 365 |
English Education Politics and Status | 375 |
Adventures of a Woman in Science | 397 |
History | 161 |
From God of the Oppressed | 189 |
Extending a Hand across the Abyss | 205 |
Maternal Thinking | 216 |
Altered States | 233 |
History of an Encounter | 257 |
Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks | 265 |
A Feminists Life in Biology | 417 |
An Introduction | 435 |
A Textbook Pregnancy | 444 |
Personal Thinking | 455 |
Selected Bibliography | 467 |
Contributors | 483 |
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