02916nam 2200673Ia 450 991077801640332120230721022353.00-674-03821-510.4159/9780674038219(CKB)1000000000787165(OCoLC)503446230(CaPaEBR)ebrary10309096(SSID)ssj0001145839(PQKBManifestationID)12456217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001145839(PQKBWorkID)11122948(PQKB)10271596(SSID)ssj0000173806(PQKBManifestationID)11170331(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173806(PQKBWorkID)10174141(PQKB)10708431(MiAaPQ)EBC3300023(Au-PeEL)EBL3300023(CaPaEBR)ebr10309096(DE-B1597)574622(DE-B1597)9780674038219(OCoLC)1257325010(EXLCZ)99100000000078716520071116d2008 uy 0engur||||||||txtccrHow to do biography[electronic resource] a primer /Nigel HamiltonCambridge Harvard University Press20081 online resource (379 pages.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-06615-4 0-674-02796-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-367) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Getting Started -- 1. The Task of Biography -- 2. What Is Your Agenda? -- 3. Defining Your Audience -- 4. Researching Your Subject -- 5. The Shape of a Life -- II. Composing a Life-Story -- 6. The Starting Point -- 7. Birthing Your Subject -- 8. Childhood and Youth -- 9. Love Stories -- 10. Life’s Work -- 11. The Twilight Years -- 12. Ending Your Story -- III. Variations on a Theme -- 13. Autobiography and Memoirs -- 14. Memoir -- 15. Truth—and Its Consequences -- 16. The Afterlife -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- IndexFollowing his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft.Biography as a literary formBiographyResearchMethodologyAutobiographyAuthorshipBiography as a literary form.BiographyResearchMethodology.AutobiographyAuthorship.808/.06692Hamilton Nigel444102MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778016403321How to do biography764758UNINA03905oam 2200853I 450 991078408370332120230617010228.01-135-93241-71-135-93242-51-280-17845-00-203-32772-110.4324/9780203327722(CKB)1000000000254930(EBL)199648(OCoLC)437059556(SSID)ssj0000193172(PQKBManifestationID)11174768(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193172(PQKBWorkID)10217535(PQKB)11733632(MiAaPQ)EBC199648(Au-PeEL)EBL199648(CaPaEBR)ebr10094984(CaONFJC)MIL17845(OCoLC)994985736(EXLCZ)99100000000025493020180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe literature of immigration and racial formation becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late Progressive Era /Linda Joyce BrownNew York ;London :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (159 p.)Studies in American popular history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-64975-7 0-415-94931-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-129) and index.Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women Immigrants; Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation; Chapter Three ""Why Couldn't We have Been Either One Thing or the Other?"" Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far; Chapter Four ""This Hideous Little Pickaninny"" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Antonia; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; IndexThis work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismEmigration and immigration in literatureWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismImmigrants' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismDifference (Psychology) in literaturePassing (Identity) in literatureImmigrants in literatureEthnicity in literatureWhite people in literatureRace in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Emigration and immigration in literature.Women and literatureHistoryAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Immigrants' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Difference (Psychology) in literature.Passing (Identity) in literature.Immigrants in literature.Ethnicity in literature.White people in literature.Race in literature.810.9/3522/09041Brown Linda Joyce1967-,1582826MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784083703321The literature of immigration and racial formation3865497UNINA