Getting a Life

Everyday Uses of Autobiography

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1996-04-01
Mått149 x 229 x 23 mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor432
FörlagUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN9780816624904

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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.