1st Edition
Auto/Biography across the Americas Transnational Themes in Life Writing
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading beyond Boundaries
Chapter One: Timescapes, Backpacks, Networks
Chapter Two: Art, Identity, and Narration
Chapter Three: A Transnational Autobiographical Pact
Chapter Four: Between Nations, Between Selves
Chapter Five: Talking beyond Borders
Chapter Six: The Mediated Self in the Contested Domain of Caribbean Autobiography
Chapter Seven: Mapping Out a Treacherous Terrain
Chapter Eight: Decolonial Translation in Embodied Auto/Biographical Indigenous Performance
Chapter Nine: "See how I talk about the slavemaster"
Chapter Ten: Class and Class Awareness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Chapter Eleven: The Paradoxical Demand for Realism
Chapter Twelve: "Forward!" National Identity, Animalographies, and the Ethics of Representation in the Posthuman Imaginary
Contributors
Index
Biography
Ricia Anne Chansky is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She is editor of the journal Auto/Biography Studies and co-editor of The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader (Routledge, 2016).
"In Auto/Biography Across the Americas, Chansky has collected twelve thought-provoking essays focusing on “points of connectivity”, linking life writing across the Americas. Chansky argues that these narratives are characterized broadly by two key themes: movement and belonging. More generally, she argues that auto/biography studies would benefit from centering theories, narratives, and disciplinary perspectives that destabilize nationalist frameworks for understanding literature and identity."- Theresa A. Kulbaga, Miami University
