Foreword: 30 Years (and Counting) Ricia Chansky and Emily Hipchen
Introduction: Moving beyond Boundaries Ricia Anne Chansky
1. The Process: Finding Enslaved Children’s Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative Colleen A. Vasconcellos
2. On Racial Silence and Salience: Narrating "African Things" in Puerto Rican Oral History Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas
3. Roots and Routes: The Biographical Meshwork of Saint Josephine Bakhita Maria Suely Kofes
4. Tactical Lines in Three Black Women’s Visual Portraits, 1773-1849 Jocelyn K. Moody
5. (Un)Translatability and the Autobiographical Subject in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards Bella Brodzki
6. Exploring Narratives of Contested Gender Identities in Jamaican Dancehall Donna P. Hope
7. Patti Smith Kicks In the Walls of Memoir: Relational Lives and "the Right Voice" in Just Kids Julia Watson
8. Public Memory and Public Mourning in Contemporary Colombia Gabriel Jaime Murillo Arango
9. (Auto)Biography in Pre-Service Teacher Training: Rural Education in Bahia, Brazil Elizeu Clementino de Souza
Biography
Ricia Anne Chansky is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. She is the co-editor of the scholarly journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and editor of the forthcoming volumes, The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader and Auto/Biography across the Americas: Transnational Themes Life Writing. She founded the International Auto/Biography Association – Chapter of the Americas.
