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Bibliography On Autobiographical Studies

This document provides a bibliography on autobiography and historiography that contains over 30 sources. The sources cover a wide range of topics including theories of autobiography, women's autobiographical writings, memoirs, life writing, theories of subjectivity and self-representation, and the history of autobiography as a literary genre. Scholars represented in the bibliography include Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, James Olney, Paul De Man, Jacques Derrida, and Carolyn Steedman among others.

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Bibliography On Autobiographical Studies

This document provides a bibliography on autobiography and historiography that contains over 30 sources. The sources cover a wide range of topics including theories of autobiography, women's autobiographical writings, memoirs, life writing, theories of subjectivity and self-representation, and the history of autobiography as a literary genre. Scholars represented in the bibliography include Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, James Olney, Paul De Man, Jacques Derrida, and Carolyn Steedman among others.

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EL 199: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HISTORIOGRAPHY

Benstock, Shari. Authorizing the Autobiographical The Private Self: Theory


and Practice of Womens Autobiographical Writings. Ed. Shari Benstock.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

John Beverly, Through All Things Modern: Second Thoughts on Testimonio.


Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory. Durham:
Duke UP, 1999. 65-84.

Buss, Helen. Reproducing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women.


Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2002.

Corbett, Mary Jean. Literary Domesticity and Women Writers Subjectivities.


Women, Autobiograph, Theory. Eds. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Madison,
WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 255-263.

Cox, James M. The Memoirs of Henry James: Self-Interest as Autobiography.


In Studies in Autobiography. Ed. James Olney. New York, Oxford: Oxford
UP, 1988. 3-23.

. Recovering Literatures Lost Ground Through Autobiography. In Olney,


123-145.

De Man, Paul. Autobiography as De-facement. MLN 94: 1979. 919-930.


Derrida, Jacques. ...That Dangerous Supplement. Of Grammatology. Trans.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins
University Press. 1974; 1997. 141-164.

Egan, Susanna and Gabriele Helms, Eds. Introduction: Auto/biography? Yes.


But Canadian? Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2002): 5-16.

Friedman, Susan Stanford. Womens Autobiographical Selves: Theory and


Practice. In Women, Autobiography, Theory. Eds. Sidonie Smith and Julia
Watson. Madison, WI: U. of Wisconsin P., 1998. 72-82.

Gilmore, Leigh. The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony. Ithaca, NY


and London: Cornell UP, 2001.

Gusdorf, Georges. Conditions and Limits of Autobiography. James Olney,


trans. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. James Olney, Ed.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 27-48. 1980.

Lang, Candace. Autobiography in the Aftermath of Romanticism. Diacritics


12 (1982): 2-16.

Marcus, Laura. Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice.


Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1994.

Mehlman, Jeffrey. The Structural Study of Autobiography: Proust, Leiris, Satre,


Lvis-Strauss. Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1974.

Olney, James, Ed. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1980.

. Autobiography and the Cultural Moment. In Olney, 3-27.

. The Transmorgrifications of Life-Writing. Southern Review (Summer


1997) vol. 33 no. 3: n.p.

Pascal, Roy. Design and Truth in Autobiography. London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1960.

Quinby, Lee. The Subject of Memoirs: The Woman Warriors Technology of


Ideographic Selfhood. Eds Smith and Watson. De/Colonizing the Subject.
297-320.

Smith, Sidonie. A Poetics of Womens Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions


of Self-Representation. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University
Press, 1987.

Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson, Eds. De/Colonizing the Subject: the Politics of
Gender in Womens Autobiography. Minneapolis: Minnesota University
Press, 1992.

, Eds. Introduction. Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography.


Minneapolis:
Minnesota University Press, 1996.

, Eds. Introduction: Situating Subjectivity in Womens Autobiographical


Practices. Women, Autobiography, Theory. Madison, WI: U. of Wisconsin
P., 1998. 3-56.

Spengemann, William. The Forms of Autobiography: Episodes in the History of a


Literary Genre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.

Stanton, Domna, Ed. Introduction to The Female Autograph: Theory and Practice
of Autobiography from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1984.

Steedman, Carolyn Kay. Landscape for a Good Woman: a Story of Two Lives. New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers U.P., 1986.

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