Auto/Biography in the Americas by Ricia Chansky - 9781138641044

Taylor & Francis

Auto/Biography in the AmericasRelational Lives\nAuthor(s): Ricia Chansky\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138641044, 978-1138641044\nSynopsis\nAuto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives brings together scholars from disparate geographic regions, cultural perspectives, linguistic frameworks, and disciplinary backgrounds to explore what connects narrated lives in the Americas. By interweaving scholarship on Afro-diasporic subjectivities, gendered narratives, lives in translation, celebrity auto/biographies, and pedagogical approaches to teaching auto/biographical narratives, this volume argues that connections between the contrasting locations of the Americas may be found in a shared history of diasporic movement that causes a heightened awareness of the need to belong and to thereby define the self in relation to others. \n\nRead together, the essays in this collection suggest that identities across the Amer.