Sidonie smith autobiography sample

A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative.

Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson explore these components, review the history of life writing and the foundations of autobiographical subjectivity, and.

This book aims to be at once a comprehensive critical introduction and a retrospective study of autobiography.

We foreground concepts and pose questions helpful for practicing the critical activity of theorizing women's autobiography.

By Sidonie Smith.

This book aims to be at once a comprehensive critical introduction and a retrospective study of autobiography....

Reading Autobiography Now

"This book offers a superb wayfinder through the rich and strange forest of life writing and its many forms of art.

Bringing decades of wisdom as leaders in this multidisciplinary field, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson have wonderfully updated this latest edition, with attention to multimedia and digital life narrative, nobody memoir, autographics, ecocriticism, sex and gender narrative, dementia recordings, and much more.

Those with time will enjoy theoretical debates on embodiment, epistemology, experience, and identity; seekers in a hurry have mini-essays for quick marveling at autobiography now." —Margaretta Jolly, director, Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, University of Sussex

"This third edition of the most comprehensive, provocative, and useful guide to life narratives updates its chapters on autobiography, extends its international reach, and expands its coverage of the stunning range of genres, m