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Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
William L. Andrews, Series Editor
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography publishes original autobiographical writing as well as historical and critical investigations of autobiography, biography, diary, letters, and related forms of life writing.
During recent decades, the study of autobiography has come increasingly to the forefront of literary, cultural, and historical scholarship. In addition to its long-recognized value as a social and cultural document, autobiography now claims our attention as an index to the ways in which people conceive of and re-create history itself. Autobiography has become one of the chief challengers to standard notions of the literary canon. This series promotes the growth of autobiography studies in and across a variety of humanistic disciplines by publishing original work that employs a wide range of critical approaches to and definitions of first-person writing. In addition to original scholarly work, the series includes editions of primary texts that make a significant contribution to the tradition of autobiographical writing.
Please send all inquiries and book proposals to William L. Andrews.
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ISBN 978-0-299-31180-3
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs
The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911
Edited by Mary Maillard
“A rich and fascinating portrait of Philadelphia's and Washington D.C.'s black elite after the Civil War. Even as the letters depict the increasingly troubled political status and economic fortunes of the correspondents, they offer rare glimpses into private homes and inner emotions.”
—Carla L. Peterson,author of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Casebound $74.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-30980-0
Reading African American Autobiography
Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism
Edited by Eric D. Lamore
“These provocative essays reveal the exciting state of African American autobiographical studies. The critical approaches explored here—from new-media studies and eco-criticism to reading the interplay between visual and verbal autobiographical acts—not only frame and interpret the life narratives proliferating within today’s digital and popular cultures, they enliven classic literary texts for a contemporary age.”
—Angela Ards, author of Words of Witness
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A Mysterious Life and Calling
From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina
Reverend Mrs. Charlotte S. Riley
Edited with an introduction by Crystal J. Lucky, Foreword by Joycelyn K. Moody
Fall 2015
Words of Witness
Black Women’s Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era
Angela A. Ards
Fall 2015
Dear World
Contemporary Uses of the Diary
Kylie Cardell
Fall 2014
Masked
The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
Alfred Habegger
Spring 2014
We Shall Bear Witness
Life Narratives and Human Rights
Edited by Meg Jensen and Margaretta Jolly
Spring 2014
Sister
An African American Life in Search of Justice
Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage
Spring 2013
Graphic Subjects
Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels
Edited by Michael A. Chaney
Spring 2011
A Muslim American Slave
The Life of Omar Ibn Said
Omar Ibn Said, Translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes
Spring 2011
Writing Desire
Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography
Bertram J. Cohler
Spring 2007
The Blind African Slave
Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
Jeffrey Brace, as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq., Edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter
Fall 2004
Voices Made Flesh
Performing Women’s Autobiography
Edited by Lynn C. Miller, Jacqueline Taylor, and M. Heather Carver
Fall 2003
The Woman in Battle
The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier
Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Introduction by Jesse Alemán
Fall 2003
Who Am I?
An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
Yi-Fu Tuan
Fall 1999
Illumination and Night Glare
The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers, Edited with an introduction by Carlos L. Dews
Fall 1999
Rosa
The Life of an Italian Immigrant
Marie Hall Ets, Foreword by Rudolph J. Vecoli, Introductory note by Helen Barolini
Spring 1999
My Generation
Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics
John Downton Hazlett
Spring 1998
Recovering Bodies
Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
G. Thomas Couser, Foreword by Nancy Mairs
Fall 1997
People of the Book
Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity
Edited by Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Spring 1996
Intensely Family
The Inheritance of Family Shame and the Autobiographies of Henry James
Carol Holly
Spring 1995
American Lives
An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing
Edited by Robert F. Sayre
Fall 1994
Witnessing Slavery
The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives
Frances Smith Foster
Spring 1994
The Zea Mexican Diary
7 September 1926—7 September 1986
Kamau Brathwaite, Foreword by Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Spring 1993
Livin’ the Blues
Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet
Frank Marshall Davis, Edited with an introduction by John Edgar Tidwell
Fall 1992
A Woman’s Civil War
A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
Cornelia Peake McDonald, Edited with an Introduction by Minrose C. Gwin
Spring 1992
Journeys in New Worlds
Early American Women’s Narratives
Edited by William L. Andrews, Sargent Bush, Jr., Annette Kolodny, Amy Schrager Lang, and Daniel B. Shea
Fall 1990
Forbidden Family
A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941–1945
Margaret Sams, Edited with an introduction by Lynn Z. Bloom
Fall 1989
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