Ethnic life writing and histories : genres, performance, and culture

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Ethnic life writing and historical mediation: approaches and interventions / Rocío G. Davis, Jaume Aurell, Ana Beatriz Delgado

Academic and other memoirs: memory, poetry, and the body / Shirley Geok-lin Lim

My name is Carmen but this story is not mine: an introduction to "Searching for Carmen: a Mexican-American odyssey" / Carmen Pearson

Remembered community: memory and nationality in Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for forgetfulness / Terry DeHay

"No nation woman" writes her self: war and the return home in Meena Alexander's memoirs / Lavina D. Shanker

At home in the diaspora? Abraham Verghese's and Mira Nair's My own country / Pin-chia Feng

Looking back: diasporic longing in Citizen 13660 and Persepolis / Min Hyoung Song

Reconstructing the woman behind the photograph: Denise Chong's The girl in the picture / Eleanor Ty

"Ejemplos metafóricos": self-presentation and history in Chicana autobiography and life-narrative / A. Gabriel Meléndez

Writing the fragmented self in Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autobiography of a brown buffalo / Philip Bracher

Referential ambiguities or ambiguous referentialities: the interactions of history, language, and image in Victor Villaseñor's and Sheila and Sandra Ortiz Taylor's family autobiographies / Angelika Köhler

Asian American narratives of return: Nisei representations of prewar and wartime Japan / Patricia P. Chu

Mediating autobiography and criticism: Ihab Hassan and Edward Said / Ioana Luca

Ethnic life writing in an era of postethnicity: "Maxine Hong Kingston" and "Alice Walker" at the millennium / Pirjo Ahokas