Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, eds.

"This anthology of autobiographical writing by scholars with a range of ties to the academy, this mosaic of brave, graceful, and compassionate voices, skillfully edited by Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, bears testimony to the strength of an intellectual movement that is changing the way scholarship is being done. . . . [T]his book asserts the importance of a common project, a shared commitment to a way of knowing as well as a way of telling."--Ruth Behar, from the foreword

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