Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, eds.

An anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research.

Acknowledgments ixForeword / Ruth Behar xiiiSelf/Discipline: An Introduction / Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey 1Language and LiteratureFinding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription / David Bleich 41Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet / Carlos L. Dews 68Three Readings of the Wife of Bath / Merrill Black 85Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays / David Richman 96Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor / Bonnie Tusmith 114Following the Voice of the Draft / Donald M. Murray 129Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing / Carla L. Peterson 138HistoryTribute to Robert D. Marcus / David Bleich 159Journey/man: Hi/s/tory / Robert D. Marcus 161ReligionFrom God of the Oppressed / James Cone 189PhilosophyBeyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss / Laura Duhan Kaplan 205Maternal Thinking / Sara Ruddick 216Africana StudiesAltered States / Kwame Anthony Appiah 233Art HistoryHistory of an Encounter / Eunice Lipton 257MusicDevouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks / Peter Hamlin 265FilmWhen the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre / Julie Tharp 281Filming Point of View / Deborah Lefkowitz 292AnthropologyFrom The Broken Cord / Michael Dorris 311Juban America / Ruth Behar 331Close Encounters with a CSA: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist / Laura B. Delind 349LawThe Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing) / Patricia J. Williams 365English EducationMy Father/ My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status / Brenda Daly 375Research PsychologyAdventures of a Woman in Science / Naomi Weisstein 397BiologyThrough the Looking Glass: A Feminist's Life in Biology / Muriel Lederman 417MedicineThat Disorder: An Introduction / Alice Wexler 435A Textbook Pregnancy / Perri Klass 444Math, Psychology, and Science EducationPersonal Thinking / Seymour Papert 455Selected Bibliography 467Contributors 483