Autore	Brown Megan (Professor of English)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (173 pages)
Disciplina	810.9/492
Collana	Wisconsin studies in autobiography
Soggetto topico	Biography as a literary form Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism American prose literature - History and criticism - 21st century Autobiography
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: "we have known who the falling man is all along" -- Keeping It Real, or, "Fraud" Memoirs and Representations of Ethnic Authenticity -- Learning to Live Again: Contemporary U.S. Memoir as Biopolitical Self-Care Guide -- Memoirs of Empire -- Babies, Blow Jobs, and Bombs: The Bromoir and/as Anxiety -- Selling Subjectivity: Business Memoirs as Biopolitical Management -- The Memoir as Provocation: A Case for "Me Studies" in Undergraduate Classes.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910157445603321

Autore	Meehan Sean Ross <1969->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/492
Soggetto topico	American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Literature and photography - United States - History - 19th century Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism Photography - United States - History - 19th century Visual perception in literature Photography in literature Autobiography Self-realization in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8262-6640-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register -- Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered -- Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography -- Epilogue: future readers.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454328003321

Autore	Browder Laura <1963->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/492
Collana	Cultural studies of the United States
Soggetto topico	American prose literature - History and criticism Autobiography Literary forgeries and mystifications - History Impostors and imposture in literature Difference (Psychology) in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Passing (Identity) in literature Group identity in literature Ethnic groups in literature Impersonation in literature Ethnicity in literature Self in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8078-6060-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Slave Narratives and the Problem of Authenticity; 2. Staged Ethnicities: Laying the Groundwork for Ethnic Impersonator Autobiographies; 3. Writing American: California Novels of Brown People and White Nationhood; 4. One Hundred Percent American: How a Slave, a Janitor, and a Former Klansman Escaped Racial Categories by Becoming Indians; 5. The Immigrant's Answer to Horatio Alger; 6. Passing As Poor: Class Imposture in Depression America; 7. Postwar Blackface: How Middle-Class White Americans Became Authentic through Blackness 8. To Pass Is To Survive: Danny Santiago's Famous All Over Town Conclusion: Rewriting the Ethnic Autobiography; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455903203321

Autore	Winnett Susan
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/492
Collana	Rethinking theory (Baltimore, Md.)
Soggetto topico	American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Autobiography Expatriate authors - Psychology Identity (Psychology) in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4214-0782-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: writing back: American expatriates' narratives of return -- Framing the un-scene/writing the wrongs : Henry James's text of America -- An intellectual is being beaten : the escape and return of Harold E. Stearns -- Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden : Malcolm Cowley's odyssey of legitimation -- Everybody's autobiography : the remaking of an American -- Postcript.
Altri titoli varianti	American expatriates and narratives of return
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462241203321