{"product_id":"autobiographical-writing-across-the-disciplines-9780822332138","title":"Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn anthology of the personal\/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research. This book represents various disciplines, including mathematics, sociology, psychology, literature, religion and legal history. It also chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This anthology of autobiographical writing by scholars with a range of ties to the academy, this mosaic of brave, graceful, and compassionate voices, skillfully edited by Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, bears testimony to the strength of an intellectual movement that is changing the way scholarship is being done. . . . [T]his book asserts the importance of a common project, a shared commitment to a way of knowing as well as a way of telling.”—\u003cb\u003eRuth Behar\u003c\/b\u003e, from the foreword\u003cbr\u003e“This collection brings a new kind of scholarship into focus: research that has a human face and speaks with a human voice. In these essays, knowledge comes alive for the reader because it has sprung from the lived experience of the investigator. The contributors are pioneers in their fields, blazing trails for future work in their disciplines.”—\u003cb\u003eJane Tompkins\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Life in School: What the Teacher Learned\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Foreword \/ Ruth Behar xiii\u003cbr\u003e Self\/Discipline: An Introduction \/ Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey 1\u003cbr\u003e Language and Literature \u003cbr\u003e Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription \/ David Bleich 41\u003cbr\u003e Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Carlos L. Dews 68\u003cbr\u003e Three Readings of the Wife of Bath \/ Merrill Black 85\u003cbr\u003e Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays \/ David Richman 96\u003cbr\u003e Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor \/ Bonnie Tusmith 114\u003cbr\u003e Following the Voice of the Draft \/ Donald M. Murray 129\u003cbr\u003e Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing \/ Carla L. Peterson 138\u003cbr\u003e History \u003cbr\u003e Tribute to Robert D. Marcus \/ David Bleich 159\u003cbr\u003e Journey\/man: Hi\/s\/tory \/ Robert D. Marcus 161\u003cbr\u003e Religion \u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eGod of the Oppressed\u003c\/i\u003e \/ James Cone 189\u003cbr\u003e Philosophy \u003cbr\u003e Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss \/ Laura Duhan Kaplan 205\u003cbr\u003e Maternal Thinking \/ Sara Ruddick 216\u003cbr\u003e Africana Studies \u003cbr\u003e Altered States \/ Kwame Anthony Appiah 233\u003cbr\u003e Art History \u003cbr\u003e History of an Encounter \/ Eunice Lipton 257\u003cbr\u003e Music \u003cbr\u003e Devouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks \/ Peter Hamlin 265\u003cbr\u003e Film \u003cbr\u003e When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre \/ Julie Tharp 281\u003cbr\u003e Filming Point of View \/ Deborah Lefkowitz 292\u003cbr\u003e Anthropology \u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Cord\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Michael Dorris 311\u003cbr\u003e Juban America \/ Ruth Behar 331\u003cbr\u003e Close Encounters with a CSA: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist \/ Laura B. Delind 349\u003cbr\u003e Law \u003cbr\u003e The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing) \/ Patricia J. Williams 365\u003cbr\u003e English Education \u003cbr\u003e My Father\/ My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status \/ Brenda Daly 375\u003cbr\u003e Research Psychology \u003cbr\u003e Adventures of a Woman in Science \/ Naomi Weisstein 397\u003cbr\u003e Biology \u003cbr\u003e Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist's Life in Biology \/ Muriel Lederman 417\u003cbr\u003e Medicine \u003cbr\u003e That Disorder: An Introduction \/ Alice Wexler 435\u003cbr\u003e A Textbook Pregnancy \/ Perri Klass 444\u003cbr\u003e Math, Psychology, and Science Education \u003cbr\u003e Personal Thinking \/ Seymour Papert 455\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 467\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 483","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406033756503,"sku":"9780822332138","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822332138.jpg?v=1730494314","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/autobiographical-writing-across-the-disciplines-9780822332138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}