Author: Mark Skouse
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: autobiography, completed, franklin, benjamin, compleated
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-11-21
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0895260336
ISBN-13: 9780895260338

In honor of the 300th anniversary of Franklin’s birth, Mark Skousen has accomplished what the old philosopher was unable to complete: He has finished the autobiography completely in Franklin’s own words. The Compleated Autobiography retains Franklin’s sophistication, humor, and sense of irony that made the original autobiography a classic.

Author: Yi-Fu Tua
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: autobiography, studies, wisconsin, mind, emotion, spirit
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2009-03-12
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0299166643
ISBN-13: 9780299166649

Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of 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. This unusually introspective autobiography mixes Yi-Fu Tuan’s reflections on a life filled with recognition, accolades, and affection with what he deems moral failings, his lack of courageâ??including the courage to be open about his homosexuality. “A stunningly good boo

Author: Arnold Krupat
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: autobiography, studies, wisconsin, anthology, native, american
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1994-10-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0299140245
ISBN-13: 9780299140243

This collection of autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present day. The 30 narratives included cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years.

Author: Genaro M. Padilla
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: autobiography, wisconsin, studies, american, mexican, yours, formation, history
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-01-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0299139743
ISBN-13: 9780299139742

    "I am willing to relate all I can remember, but I wish it clearly understood that it must be in my own way,  and at my own time.  I will not be hurried or dictated to.  It is my history and not yours I propose to tell.”—Mariano Guadelupe Vallejo, on “Recuerdos históricos y personales”  (1875)    My History, Not Yours is a landmark study of the autobiographical writings of Mexican Americans in the century following the US-Mexican War of 1846-1848.  Some 75,000 inhabitants of what is now Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California were suddenly foreigners on thei

Author: Philip Holde
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: autobiography, wisconsin, studies, state, masculinity, decolonization, modernity, nation
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-05-19
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0299226107
ISBN-13: 9780299226107

Philip Holden reveals deeply gendered connections between the writing of individual lives and of the narratives of nations emerging from colonialism. Autobiography and Decolonization is the first book to give serious academic attention to autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of decolonization, attending to them not simply as partial historical documents, but as texts involved in remaking the world views of their readers. Holden examines Mohandas K. Gandhi’s An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Marcus Garvey’s fragmentary Autobiography,Joseph Ep

Author: Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: autobiography, wisconsin, studies, representation, identity, cultural, caribbean
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-07-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0299176940
ISBN-13: 9780299176945

The rich literary tradition of English-language autobiography in the Caribbean, from Mary Prince and Jean Rhys to Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more familiar works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole

Authors:Sidonie A. Smith, Julia Watson,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: autobiography, studies, wisconsin, theory, women, reader
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1998-07-27
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0299158446
ISBN-13: 9780299158446

Women, Autobiography, Theory is the first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of womens autobiography, drawing into one volume the most significant theoretical discussions on womens life writing of the last two decades. The authoritative introduction by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson surveys writing about womens lives from the womens movement of the late 1960s to the present. It also relates theoretical positions in womens autobiography studies to postmodern, poststructuralist, postcolonial, and feminist analyses. The essays from thirty-nine prominent critics and w