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Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography by Smith, Sidonie
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- Paperback
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- ISBN
- 9780816624904
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Getting Alife : Everyday Uses of Autobiography
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 21 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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From resumes to personal ads, from talk shows to self-help groups, autobiographical storytelling has become a central theme of American culture. Visual media offer possible lives through soap operas, talk shows, and "lifestyle programming", and newspapers and magazines frame their stories as "personality profiles". This text explores a variety of occasions during which people consume personal narratives. This collection aims to expand our understanding of how we negotiate and commodify identity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816624909
ISBN-13
9780816624904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
297225
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Getting Alife : Everyday Uses of Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ct25.G48 1996
Table of Content
Introduction, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Part I Speaking bodies: bad girls and sick boys - inside the body in fiction, film, and performance art, Linda S. Kauffman; "voicing" deaf identity - through the "I's" and ears of an other, H-Dirksen L. Bauman; medical identity - my DNA/myself, Kay K. Cook. Part II Enter-taining lives: morphing identities - Arnold Schwarze-negger - write us, Louise Krasniewicz and Michael Blitz; performing teen motherhood on video - autoethnography as counterdiscourse, Salome Chasnoff; the mediated talking cure - therapeutic framing of autobiography in tv talk shows, Janice Peck; want ads - reading the personals, Traci Carroll. Part III Un/speakable lives: consensual autobiography - narrating "personal sexual history" from Boswell's "london journal" to AIDS pamphlet literature, Philip E. Baruth; survivor discourse - transgression or recuperation?, Linda Martin Alcoff and Laura Gray-Rosendale; taking it to a limit one more time - autobiography and autism, Sidonie Smith. Part IV Family portraits: "what kind of life have I got?" gender in the life story of an "ordinary" woman, Susan Ostrov Weisser; race/identity/culture/kin - constructions of African American identity in transracial adoption, Sandra Patton; ordering the family - genealogy as autobiographical pedigree, Julia Watson. Part V Institutionalised lives: twelve-step teleology - narratives of recovery/recovery as narrative, Robyn R. Warhol and Helena Michie; professional subjects - prepacking the academic CV, Martin A. Danahay; (for)getting a life - testimony, identity, and power, William Chaloupka; epilogue - pieces of my heart, Julia Watson.
Copyright Date
1996
Topic
General
Lccn
95-037293
Dewey Decimal
818/.50809492
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
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