LEADER 03708oam 22005054a 450 001 9910970789603321 005 20240505155727.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000964596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4756120 035 $a(OCoLC)965197480 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53760 035 $a(Perlego)4390087 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000964596 100 $a20160408h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aReading African American Autobiography $eTwenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism /$fedited by Eric D. Lamore 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aMadison, Wisconsin :$cThe University of Wisconsin Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (294 pages) 225 1 $aWisconsin studies in autobiography 311 08$a9780299309800 311 08$a0299309800 311 08$a9780299309831 311 08$a0299309835 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: African American Autobiography in the "Age of Obama" - Eric D. Lamore -- "A Dying Man": The Outlaw Body of Arthur, 1768 - Lynn A. Casmier-Paz -- Early Black Men's Spiritual Autobiography: Marriage and Violence - Joycelyn K. Moody -- Olaudah Equiano in the United States: Abigail Mott's 1829 Abridged Edition of the Interesting Narrative - Eric D. Lamore -- The Visual Properties of Black Autobiography: The Case of William J. Edwards - Anthony S. Foy -- Richard Wright's Environments: Mediating Personhood through the South's Second Nature - Susan Scott Parrish -- "A Space of Concentration": The Autobiographical Comics of Richard "Grass" Green and Samuel R. Delany - Brian Cremins -- Born into This Body: Black Women's Use of Buddhism in Autobiographical Narratives - Tracy Curtis -- From Blog to Books: Angela Nissel, Authorship, and the Digital Public Sphere - Linda Furgerson Selzer -- Grafted Belongings: Identification in Autobiographical Narratives of African American Transracial Adoptees - Marina Fedosik -- Reading Signs of Crazy: Pam Grier, a Black Feminist in Praxis - Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- Contributors -- Index. 330 8 $aThis timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression. This book also examines at length the proliferation of African American autobiography in the twenty-first century, noting the roles of digital genres, remediated lives, celebrity lives, self-help culture, non-Western religious traditions, and the politics of adoption. The life narratives studied range from an eighteenth-century criminal narrative, a 1918 autobiography, and the works of Richard Wright to new media, graphic novels, and a celebrity memoir from Pam Grier. 410 0$aWisconsin studies in autobiography. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/4920009296073 702 $aLamore$b Eric D. 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970789603321 996 $aReading African American Autobiography$94364907 997 $aUNINA