| Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism Contributor(s): LaMore, Eric D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299309800 ISBN-13: 9780299309800 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $71.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - African American - Biography & Autobiography | Reference - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.949 |
| LCCN: 2016012950 |
| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This timely volume 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. This book also examines at length the proliferation of African American autobiography in the twenty-first century, noting the roles of digital genres, remediated lives, celebrity lives, self-help culture, non-Western religious traditions, and the politics of adoption. The life narratives studied range from an eighteenth-century criminal narrative, a 1918 autobiography, and the works of Richard Wright to new media, graphic novels, and a celebrity memoir from Pam Grier. |
