Getting a life : everyday uses of autobiography /

Various encounters helped us transform what was originally just a response to a trendy 1980s phrase--Get A life!--into the pointed yet heterogeneous engagement with everyday practices that we believe this collection represents. Papers submitted for the session on the everyday uses of autobiography a...

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Other Authors: Smith, Sidonie, Watson, Julia, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1996], ©1996
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota, c1996
Minneapolis : 1996
Minneapolis : c1996
Minneapolis : 1996
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Introduction / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson -- 1. Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Inside the Body in Fiction, Film, and Performance Art / Linda S. Kauffman -- 2. "Voicing" Deaf Identity: Through the "I's" and Ears of an Other / H-Dirksen L. Bauman -- 3. Medical Identity: My DNA/Myself / Kay K. Cook -- 4. Morphing Identities: Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Write Us / Louise Krasniewicz and Michael Blitz -- 5. Performing Teen Motherhood on Video: Autoethnography as Counterdiscourse / Salome Chasnoff -- 6. The Mediated Talking Cure: Therapeutic Framing of Autobiography in TV Talk Shows / Janice Peck -- 7. Want Ads: Reading the Personals / Traci Carroll -- 8. Consensual Autobiography: Narrating "Personal Sexual History" from Boswell's London Journal to AIDS Pamphlet Literature / Philip E. Baruth -- 9. Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation? / Linda Martin Alcoff and Laura Gray-Rosendale -- 10. Taking It to a Limit One More Time: Autobiography and Autism / Sidonie Smith -- 11. "What Kind of Life Have I Got?" Gender in the Life Story of an "Ordinary" Woman / Susan Ostrov Weisser -- 12. Race/Identity/Culture/Kin: Constructions of African American Identity in Transracial Adoption / Sandra Patton -- 13. Ordering the Family: Genealogy as Autobiographical Pedigree / Julia Watson -- 14. Twelve-Step Teleology: Narratives of Recovery/Recovery as Narrative / Robyn R. Warhol and Helena Michie -- 15. Professional Subjects: Prepackaging the Academic C.V. / Martin A. Danahay 
505 0 0 |t Introduction /  |r Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson --  |g 1  |t Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Inside the Body in Fiction, Film, and Performance Art /  |r Linda S. Kauffman --  |g 2.  |t "Voicing" Deaf Identity: Through the "I's" and Ears of an Other /  |r H-Dirksen L. Bauman --  |g 3.  |t Medical Identity: My DNA/Myself /  |r Kay K. Cook --  |g 4.  |t Morphing Identities: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Write Us /  |r Louise Krasniewicz and Michael Blitz --  |g 5.  |t Performing Teen Motherhood on Video: Autoethnography as Counterdiscourse /  |r Salome Chasnoff --  |g 6.  |t The Mediated Talking Cure: Therapeutic Framing of Autobiography in TV Talk Shows /  |r Janice Peck --  |g 7.  |t Want Ads: Reading the Personals /  |r Traci Carroll --  |g 8.  |t Consensual Autobiography: Narrating "Personal Sexual History" from Boswell's London Journal to AIDS Pamphlet Literature /  |r Philip E. Baruth --  |g 9.  |t Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation? /  |r Linda Martin Alcoff and Laura Gray-Rosendale --  |g 10.  |t Taking It to a Limit One More Time: Autobiography and Autism /  |r Sidonie Smith --  |g 11.  |t "What Kind of Life Have I Got?" Gender in the Life Story of an "Ordinary" Woman /  |r Susan Ostrov Weisser --  |g 12.  |t Race/Identity/Culture/Kin: Constructions of African American Identity in Transracial Adoption /  |r Sandra Patton --  |g 13.  |t Ordering the Family: Genealogy as Autobiographical Pedigree /  |r Julia Watson --  |g 14.  |t Twelve-Step Teleology: Narratives of Recovery/Recovery as Narrative /  |r Robyn R. Warhol and Helena Michie --  |g 15.  |t Professional Subjects: Prepackaging the Academic C.V. /  |r Martin A. Danahay --  |g 16.  |t (For)getting a Life: Testimony, Identity, and Power /  |r William Chaloupka --  |t Epilogue: Pieces of My Heart /  |r Julia Watson. 
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520 |a Visual media offer possible lives through soap operas, talk shows, and newspapers and magazines. This text explores a variety of occasions during which people consume personal narratives, aiming to expand our understanding of how we negotiate and commodify identity 
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