We Shall Bear Witness

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Personal testimonies are the life force of human rights work, and rights claims have brought profound power to the practice of life writing. This volu... Lees meer

Rosa

Marie Hall Ets

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, an Italian woman who came to the United States in 1884, one of the peak years in the nineteenth-century wave... Lees meer

Four Russian Serf Narratives

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• The demonstrations capture interest, teach, inform, fascinate, amaze, and perhaps, most importantly, involve students in chemistry. Nowhere else will ... Lees meer

A Woman's Civil War

Cornelia Peake McDonald

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• On the night of March 11, 1862, as the heavy tramp of Confederate marching troops died away in the distance--her husband's regiment among them--Cornel... Lees meer

People of the Book

Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Often overshadowed by the persecution of Jews in Germany, the treatment of Jews in fascist Italy comes into sharp focus in this volume by Italian hist... Lees meer

Journeys in New Worlds

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Four early American women tell their own stories: Mary Rowlandson on her capture by Indians in 1676, Boston businesswoman Sarah Kemble Knight on her t... Lees meer

Mark Twain's Own Autobiography

Mark Twain

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• Mark Twain's Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twain's great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorro... Lees meer

The Blind African Slave

Jeffrey Brace

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Born in West Africa around 1742, Jeffrey Brace was captured by slave traders at 16. After service in the Continental Army he moved to Vermont, the fir... Lees meer

Reading African American Autobiography

Eric D LaMore

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover an... Lees meer

My Generation Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics

John Hazlett

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• John Hazlett's engaging and insightful study of writers from the 1960s demonstrates for the first time the ways in which the idea of the generation ha... Lees meer

Harriet Tubman

Jean M Humez

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Growing up on a secluded smuggling route along the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic, Packy Jim McGrath regularly heard the news, songs, and... Lees meer

American Autobiography after 9/11

Megan Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They ... Lees meer

The Divided States

• Hardcover | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• What is an "American" identity? The tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States since ... Lees meer

American Autobiography

Paul John Eakin

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• The first four essays review the major historical periods of American autobiography, placing the classic texts of American autobiographical literature... Lees meer

As Told By Herself

Lorna Martens

• Hardcover | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• As Told by Herself offers the first systematic study of women's autobiographical writing about childhood. More than 175 works-primarily from English-s... Lees meer

Witnessing Slavery

Frances Smith Foster

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• Frances Foster's classic study of pre-Civil War American slave autobiography is now issued in an accessible paperback edition. The first book to repre... Lees meer

A Muslim American Slave

Omar Ibn Said

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• Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the atten... Lees meer

The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb

Henry Bibb

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• First published in 1849 and largely unavailable for many years, The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb is among the most remarkable slave narratives. B... Lees meer

Conjoined Twins in Black and White

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• In combining evidence from art and poetry, Graham Zanker examines how people viewed and experienced art and how they constructed mental images, asking... Lees meer

The Text Is Myself

Miriam Fuchs

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Queen Lili'uokalani, the last monarch of Hawai'i, was forced to abdicate and faced the annexation of her homeland. American poet H.D. wrote through th... Lees meer

Zea Mexican Diary

Kamau Brathwaite

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• In May of 1986 Edward Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, he b... Lees meer

Education of a Wasp

Lois M Stalvey

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events the failed French invasi... Lees meer

Autobiography and Decolonization

Philip Holden

• Hardcover | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dis... Lees meer

Writing Desire

Bertram J. Cohler

• Hardcover | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, this... Lees meer