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Editors' note.(online readership of the periodical Biography)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Based on our current institutional subscriptions, you are seven to ten times more likely to be looking at a screen than at a page when consulting Biography--and that probably underestimates the dominance of online use. One of the side benefits of appearing on Project Muse and other online ...
Slave brands or cicatrices? Writing on aboriginal skin in Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland.
Mar 22, 2008; Van Toorn, Penny ... CUTTING INTO THE SKIN In 1862, Tom Petrie, the second son in Queensland's first family of free settlers, set out from his homestead at The Pine, sixteen miles north of what is now the city of Brisbane, on a timber getting expedition. He took with him ten Aboriginal men, some ...
Proof of life: memoir, truth, and documentary evidence.
Mar 22, 2008; Kraus, Carolyn ... "Does it matter if it's true?" a young woman in the audience raised her hand to ask. I hesitated. I was in Los Angeles, speaking at an academic conference on literary nonfiction. The subject had veered from the general case of nonfiction to memoir, the nonfiction subgenre in which I'd been ...
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy. The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma.
Mar 22, 2008; Hood, Carra Leah ... Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy. The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2007. 240 pp. ISBN 1-558-49558-4, $24.95. Interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma has accelerated since the events of September 11, 2001. A field of inquiry that ...
Dana Anderson. Identity's Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion.
Mar 22, 2008; Diamond, Suzanne ... Dana Anderson. Identity's Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2007. 209 pp. ISBN 978-1-57003-706-1, $39.95. Anderson's central purpose is to revitalize the concept of identity as a rhetorical tool for the assessment of personal narration. ...
Rosalia Baena, ed.: Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Kadar, Marlene ... Rosalia Baena, ed. Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing. London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2007. 129 pp. ISBN 0-4154-0043-5, $150. Rosalia Baena's collection of essays on life writing draws attention to the crucial significance of form in life writing, and in ...
Catherine Viollet and Jean-Louis Jeannelle, with Isabelle Grell. Genese et autofiction.
Mar 22, 2008; Mortimer, Armine Kotin ... Catherine Viollet and Jean-Louis Jeannelle, with Isabelle Grell. Genese et autofiction. Louvain-la-Neuve: Bruylant-Academia, 2007. 262 pp. ISBN13 978-2-87209-817-0, 29.50 euros. Philippe Lejeune writes: <Pre>"Mais qu'est-ce que la genetique? Non, ce n'est pas ...
Richard Bauckham. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony.
Mar 22, 2008; Work, Telford ... Richard Bauckham. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006. 538 pp. ISBN 0-8028-3162-1, $32.00. What kind of biographies are the four gospels of the New Testament? Since the early twentieth century, scholarly ...
Marc S. Bernstein. Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations between Judaism and Islam.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Visotzky, Burton L. ... Marc S. Bernstein. Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations between Judaism and Islam. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2006. 315 pp. ISBN 0-8143-2565-3, $69.95. A century ago, the Bollandist monk Hippolyte Delehaye wrote Les Legendes hagiographiques and put the study of spiritual ...
Marcus Moseley. Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography.
Mar 22, 2008; Nathans, Benjamin ... Marcus Moseley. Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006. 650 pp. ISBN 0-804-75157-9, $70.00. Marcus Moseley's study of the emergence of the autobiographical genre among Jews is a sprawling, original, and enormously erudite tour of ...
Franz Posset. Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Rudolph, Duane A. ... Franz Posset. Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 196 pp. ISBN 9-004-14431-5, $125. Having identified a lacuna in scholarly exploration of Renaissance humanism, Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches ...
Ilaria Serra. The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Martinelli, Phylis Cancilla ... Ilaria Serra. The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies. Bronx: Fordham UP, 2007. 244 pp. ISBN13: 9-7808-2322-678-8, $55.00. Since when do the lives of ordinary, and often uneducated, perhaps even untalented writers become worthy of ...
Maureen Perkins, ed.: Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Jakubowicz, Andrew ... Maureen Perkins, ed. Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 187 pp. ISBN 3-039-11323-2, US$41.95, SFR50. Autobiography as social science always enters a difficult space. Self-reflection has a noble history, and is a tried if not fully ...
Bertram J. Cohler. Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; McLelland, Mark ... Bertram J. Cohler. Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2007. 254 pp. ISBN13 987-0-299-222048, $24.95. In this engaging and well-written study of gay men's life writing in the postwar period, Bertram Cohler offers us insights into the ...
Hartig, Rachel M.: Crossing the Divide: Representations of Deafness in Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Brueggemann, Brenda Jo ... Hartig, Rachel M. Crossing the Divide: Representations of Deafness in Biography. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP, 2006. 161 pp. ISBN 1-5636-8298-2, $29.95. A biographical treatment of three deaf French biographers' treatments of their deaf subjects. In each central chapter, ...
Amery, Jean: Jean Amery.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Lecerf, Christine ... Amery, Jean Jean Amery. Irene Heidelberger-Leonard. Trans. (from German) Sacha Zilberfarb. Paris: Acres Sud, 2007. 370 pp. Euro28. Born Hans Meyer (Oct. 31, 1912) in a Viennese Jewish bourgeois family, Jean Amery survived Auschwitz but remained a perpetual exile, for whom ...
Andrews, Julie: Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Brockes, Emma ... Andrews, Julie Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography. Richard Stirling. New York: St. Martin's, 2007. 376 pp. $27.95. "Except for a few unrevealing interviews, Stirling, an actor as well as a writer, is reliant on pre-existing material. There is a rehash of some entertaining ...
Antrim, Donald: La Vie d'apres [The Afterlife].(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Dumontet, Fabienne ... Antrim, Donald La Vie d'apres [The Afterlife]. Donald Antrim. Trans. (from US English) Francis Kerlin. Paris: Ed. De l'Olivier, 2007. 220 pp. Euro21. His mother was alcoholic, and "infinitely fragile." After her death in 2000, Donald Antrim published several short ...
Babchenko, Arkady: One Soldier's War.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Doucette, Fred ... Babchenko, Arkady One Soldier's War. Arkady Babchenko. Trans. Nick Allen. New York: Grove, 2008. 395 pp. $27.50. A memoir of his experience of the war in Chechnya told by a Russian conscript. "This is a great book. From cover ...
Balfour, Arthur: Balfour: The Last Grandee.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Balfour, Arthur Balfour: The Last Grandee. R. J. Q. Adams. London: John Murray, 2007. 479 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. An "accomplished and sympathetic new biography." "With ...