Autobiography
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"That fertile darkness": William Carlos Williams’s Autobiographical Negotiation of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Adam & Eve & The City. Ruth Blandon, East Los Angeles College
As stated in his autobiography, Williams is decidedly non-white. His cultural, racial, and even linguistic negotiations can be seen in the context of play, conscious compromise, and even unconscious confusion evident in his autobiography as well as in his poems, “Adam” and “Eve.”
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Deconstructing Contemporary Iran: Western and Islamic Conceptions in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Series. Daniel Grassian, Nevada State College
This paper analyzes the way that Marjane Satrapi portrays both Iran and the West in her autobiographical series, Persepolis, concluding that the works provide a holistic and insightful account of contemporary Iran, one that is contradictorily oppressive and progressive at the same time.
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My War: Milblogging from Iraq. Maria Sgroi, Hawaii Pacific University
This paper focuses on Colby Buzzell’s My War: Killing Time in Iraq, and argues that milblogging demonstrates how censorship over narration affects the production of service members’ deployment narratives. Milblogging challenges our expectations about individual memory and autobiographical discourse.
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Women's Childhood Autobiography. Lorna Martens, University of Virginia
Introduces the type, focusing on its beginnings in nineteenth-century French and English literature.
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