Freedman / Frey Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

A Reader
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8496-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 506 Seiten

An anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freedman, Diane P.

Frey, Olivia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Behar, Ruth

Bleich, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword / Ruth Behar xiii

Self/Discipline: An Introduction / Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey 1

Language and Literature

Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription / David Bleich 41

Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet / Carlos L. Dews 68

Three Readings of the Wife of Bath / Merrill Black 85

Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays / David Richman 96

Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor / Bonnie Tusmith 114

Following the Voice of the Draft / Donald M. Murray 129

Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing / Carla L. Peterson 138

History

Tribute to Robert D. Marcus / David Bleich 159

Journey/man: Hi/s/tory / Robert D. Marcus 161

Religion

From God of the Oppressed / James Cone 189

Philosophy

Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss / Laura Duhan Kaplan 205

Maternal Thinking / Sara Ruddick 216

Africana Studies

Altered States / Kwame Anthony Appiah 233

Art History

History of an Encounter / Eunice Lipton 257

Music

Devouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks / Peter Hamlin 265

Film

When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre / Julie Tharp 281

Filming Point of View / Deborah Lefkowitz 292

Anthropology

From The Broken Cord / Michael Dorris 311

Juban America / Ruth Behar 331

Close Encounters with a CSA: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist / Laura B. Delind 349

Law

The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing) / Patricia J. Williams 365

English Education

My Father/ My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status / Brenda Daly 375

Research Psychology

Adventures of a Woman in Science / Naomi Weisstein 397

Biology

Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist's Life in Biology / Muriel Lederman 417

Medicine

That Disorder: An Introduction / Alice Wexler 435

A Textbook Pregnancy / Perri Klass 444

Math, Psychology, and Science Education

Personal Thinking / Seymour Papert 455

Selected Bibliography 467

Contributors 483

Über Autor(innen)

Diane P. Freedman is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of An Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre Writing by American Feminist Poet-Critics, editor of Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal, and coeditor of The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy.Olivia Frey, retired from her position as Professor of English at St. Olaf College, is now the lead administrator at the Village School in Northfield, Minnesota. Freedman and Frey are the coeditors (with Frances Murphy Zauhar) of The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism, published by Duke University Press.