By Julie Rak
ISBN-10: 0889204780
ISBN-13: 9780889204782
ISBN-10: 1417599707
ISBN-13: 9781417599707
Auto/biography in Canada: severe instructions widens the sphere of auto/biography experiences with its subtle multidisciplinary views at the conception, feedback, and perform of self, group, and illustration. instead of contemplating autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable houses, and instead of concentrating on severe methods, the essays discover auto/biography as a discourse approximately identification and illustration within the context of diverse disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada seems to be at how lifestyles narratives are made in Canada . Originating from literary reviews, heritage, and social paintings, the essays during this assortment hide issues that diversity from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper loss of life notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, gray Owl and authenticity, France Th?oret and autofiction, and a brand new studying of Stolen existence, the collaborative textual content by means of Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak’s valuable “big photograph” creation lines the background of auto/biography experiences in Canada. whereas the individuals chart disciplinary shifts occurring in auto/biography stories, their essays also are a part of the continued scholarship that's remaking how you can comprehend Canada.
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T. 1997. Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life-Writing. Wisconsin studies in American autobiography. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 25 | Julie Rak Cruikshank, J. et al. 1990. Life lived like a story: Life stories of three Yukon native elders. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. Cruikshank, J. 1998. The social life of stories: Narrative and knowledge in the Yukon Territory. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press. Danahay-Reed, D. 1997. Intro. To Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the self and the social, ed.
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Malden, ma: Blackwell. Whitlock, G. 2000. The intimate empire: Reading women’s autobiography. New York: Cassell. Zuern, J. 2003. Introduction to online lives. biography: an interdisciplinary quarterly 26 (Spring): 1–21. 29 | SUS AN N A EG AN a n d G A BR IE LE HE LM S Generations of the Holocaust in Canadian Auto/biography 1 I am their priceless heirloom Hidden from murderers Where it could not be found. I am their surviving words. ” (2000, 142). Auto/biographers who write of Holocaust experiences enter a rich literature and suffer from a curious tension.
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