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The Divided States - Unraveling National Identities In The Twenty-First Century

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 The tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States since its inception. In The Divided States, leading scholars and critics argue that the US is, and has always been, a site where multiple national identities intersect in productive and challenging ways.
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Whispers Of Cruel Wrongs - The Correspondence Of Louisa Jacobs And Her Circle, 1879-1911

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 Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters.
Limits To Interpretation - The Meanings Of Anna Karenina

by Vladimir E. Alexandrov

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 Vladimir E. Alexandrov advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific approach designed to minimize the circularity of interpretation inherent in the act of reading. He illustrates this method with the example of Tolstoy's classic novel, Anna Karenina, via a detailed â€œmapâ€ of the different possible readings that the novel can support.
Illumination And Night Glare - The Unfinished Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers

by Carson McCullers

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 Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers and American literary life in the 1950s, these memoirs are also a testament to the courage and love of life of their author.
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A Mysterious Life And Calling - From Slavery To Ministry In South Carolina

by Charlotte S. Riley

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How I Became A Human Being - A Disabled Man'S Quest For Independence

by Mark O'Brien

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 In 1955, six-year-old Mark O'Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a coma to find himself in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life. This volume is O'Brien's account of his struggles for independence despite a lifelong disability.
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Illumination And Night Glare - The Unfinished Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers

by Carson McCullers

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 Published more than 30 years after it was written, this is the autobiography of Carson McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation who died of a stroke at the age of 50. It looks back over her life from a precocious childhood in Georgia to her painful decline.
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Women, Autobiography, Theory - A Reader

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 This is a guide to the field of women's autobiography. The 39 essays explore narratives across the centuries, including testimonies, diaries, memoirs, letters, trauma accounts, prison narratives, coming out stories, coming of age stories and spiritual autobiographies.
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Diary Of Caroline Seabury

by Caroline Seabury

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The Examined Self

by Robert F. Sayre

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Campaigns Of Curiosity - Journalistic Adventures Of An American Girl

by Elizabeth L. Banks

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As Told By Herself - Women'S Childhood Autobiography, 1845-1969

by Lorna Martens

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 Offers the first systematic study of womenâ€™s autobiographical writing about childhood. More than 175 works - primarily from English-speaking countries and France, as well as other European countries - are presented in historical sequence, allowing Lorna Martens to discern and reveal patterns as they emerge and change over time.
Such Anxious Hours - Wisconsin Women'S Voices From The Civil War

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 Letters from soldiers to their families often provide prominent narratives of the Civil War. But what about the messages from the women who maintained homes and farmsteads alone? The letters and diaries of the eight women in this volume echo the ever-growing horrors of the conflict and reveal the stories of the Wisconsin home front.
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The Reformation Of The Bible/The Bible Of The Reformation

by Jaroslav Pelikan

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 It is equally true that the Reformation was inspired and defined by the Bible and that the Bible was reshaped by the intellectual, political and cultural forces of the Reformation. This work explores the level of influence each had upon the other.
Whispers Of Cruel Wrongs - The Correspondence Of Louisa Jacobs And Her Circle, 1879-1911

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 Louisa Jacobs was the daughter of Harriet Jacobs, author of the famous autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. That work included a heartbreaking account of Harriet parting with six-year-old Louisa, taken away to the North by her white father. Now, rediscovered letters reveal the lives of Louisa and her circle and shed light on Harriet's old age.
American Autobiography After 9/11

by Megan Brown

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 This lively and theoretically grounded book analyses twenty-first-century memoirs, emphasizing the ways in which they reinforce and circulate ideologies, becoming guides or models for living. Megan Brown expands her inquiry beyond books to the autobiographical narratives in reality television and political speeches, and offers a persuasive explanation for the memoir boom.
Reading African American Autobiography - Twenty-First-Century Contexts And Criticism

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 Embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression.
Words Of Witness - Black Women'S Autobiography In The Post-Brown Era

by Angela A. Ards

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 A literary and political genealogy of the last half-century, Words of Witness explores black feminist autobiographical narratives in the context of activism and history since the landmark 1954 segregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. Angela A. Ards examines how activist writers crafted these life stories to engage and shape progressive, post-Brown politics.
The Text Is Myself - Women'S Life Writing And Catastrophe

by Miriam Fuchs

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 Analysing the impact of catastrophe on the lives and writings of five female writers, Miriam Fuchs shows that it is the uncertain present that dominates their writing. She looks at: Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawai'i; poet H.D.; art critic Anna Banti; novelist Grete Weil; and writer Isabel Allende.
Diaries Of Girls And Women - A Midwestern American Sampler

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 Using the diaries (some kept only briefly, others through an entire lifetime) of girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999, this work offers an insight into the self-images of girls and women and the dynamics of families through recent history.
Rosa - The Life Of An Italian Immigrant

by Marie Hall Ets

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 This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, as told to Marie Hall Ets, who was a friend of Rosa. She tells of her life in a village, her marriage at 16, her unwilling migration to join her husband in Missouri, the unassisted birth of her child, and her life as an independent woman living in Chicago.
The Blind African Slave - Or Memoirs Of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace

by Jeffrey Brace

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 Born in West Africa around 1742, Jeffrey Brace was captured by slave traders at 16. After service in the Continental Army he moved to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. Although literate, he was blind when he narrated his life story to an antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss.
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Dear World - Contemporary Uses Of The Diary

by Kylie Cardell

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 Recent radical changes have altered the form and functions of the diary, from the confession diaries of reality television, how-to diaries, and graphic diaries to the published diaries of war correspondents, the urgent personal writing of Arab women under conflict, and the daily online postings of sex bloggers.
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Who Am I? - An Autobiography Of Emotion, Mind, And Spirit

by Yi-Fu Tuan

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 An autobiography of Yi-Fu Tuan, a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and environment.
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