| Auto/Biography in Canada: Critical Directions Contributor(s): Rak, Julie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0889204780 ISBN-13: 9780889204782 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Canadian - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 920.009 |
| Series: Cultural Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on critical approaches, the essays explore auto/biography as a discourse about identity and representation in the context of numerous disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada looks at how life narratives are made in Canada . Originating from literary studies, history, and social work, the essays in this collection cover topics that range from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper death notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, Grey Owl and authenticity, France Th oret and autofiction, and a new reading of Stolen Life, the collaborative text by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak's useful "big picture" introduction traces the history of auto/biography studies in Canada. While the contributors chart disciplinary shifts taking place in auto/biography studies, their essays are also part of the ongoing scholarship that is remaking ways to understand Canada. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rak, Julie: - Julie Rak is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004), the editor of Auto/biography in Canada (WLU Press, 2005), and co-editor, with Anna Poletti, of Identity Technologies: Producing Online Selves. Her website can be found at https: //sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/julie-rak/home |