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Auto/Biography across the Americas: Transnational Themes in Life Writing(Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

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Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to understand belonging, that reverberates through narratives of the Americas. The volume brings together essays written from diverse national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary perspectives to trace these transnational motifs in life writing across the Americas. Drawing on international scholars from the seemingly disparate regions of the Americas—North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America—this book extends critical theories of life writing beyond limiting national boundaries. The scholarship included approaches narrative inquiry from the fields of literature, linguistics, history, art history, sociology, anthropology, political science, pedagogy, gender studies, critical race studies, and indigenous studies. As a whole, this volume advances discourse in auto/biography studies, life writing, and identity studies by locating transnational themes in narratives of the Americas and placing them in international and interdisciplinary conversations.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
"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


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  • ISBN-13: 9781317337188
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Transnational Themes in Life Writing
  • ISBN-10: 1317337182
  • Publisher Date: 05 Aug 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature


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