Smith, Sidonie.

Reading autobiography : a guide for interpreting life narratives / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. - 2nd ed. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010. - xiv, 394 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Life narrative : definitions and distinctions -- Autobiographical subjects -- Autobiographical acts -- Life narrative in historical perspective -- In the wake of the memoir boom -- The visual-verbal-virtual contexts of life narrative -- A history of autobiography criticism, part I : theorizing autobiography -- A history of autobiography criticism, part II : expanding autobiography studies -- A tool kit : twenty-four strategies for reading life narratives -- Appendix A. Sixty genres of life narrative -- Appendix B. Group and classroom projects -- Appendix C. Journals and internet resources.

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Autobiography.

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