Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2015–2016

BOOKS

Aizenberg, Edna. On the Edge of the Holocaust: The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture. Brandeis UP, 2016.

Analyzes the treatment of the Shoah by Alberto Gerchunoff, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, and Joao Guimaraes Rosa.

Amato, Viola. Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture. Transcript Verlag, 2016.

Highlights paradigm shifts in intersex narratives found in recent autobiographical writing and cultural productions.

Anschutz, Philip F. Out Where the West Begins: Early Western Business Leaders. U of Oklahoma P, 2015.

Profiles and analyzes lives and strategies of some fifty entrepreneurs active in the US West between 1800 and 1920.

Attocknie, Francis Joseph. The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives. Edited by Thomas W. Kavanagh, U of Nebraska P, 2016.

Compilation of Comanche oral histories recounted by Attocknie (1790–1872) focuses on his family’s recollections of Ten Bears.

Audubon, John James. The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon. Edited by Daniel Patterson. U of Nebraska P, 2016.

First transcription and critical edition of Audubon’s journals of his last expedition through the US West.

Aurell, Jaume. Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention. Routledge, 2016.

Takes the life writing projects of historians as historiographical sources for approaching their lives, work, and ideas.

Aurini, Janice D., Melanie Heath, and Stephanie Howells. The How To of Qualitative Research. Sage, 2016.

Provides practical guides to conceptualizing and managing projects, interviewing, case-study and comparative methodologies, data recording, and participant selection.

Bak Buccitelli, Anthony. City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston. U of Wisconsin P, 2016.

Explores how local residents represent themselves and their neighborhoods via events, symbols, stories, and landmarks.

Baker, T. Lindsay. Portrait of Route 66: Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives. U of Oklahoma P, 2016.

Focuses on the production processes and economic and social uses of postcard advertisements of the early years of Route 66.

Bar-Kochva, Bezalel. The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period. U of California P, 2016.

Identifies ethnographic stereotypes in representations of Jews by Greek writers of the Hellenistic period.

Barnet-Sanchez, Holly, and Tim Drescher. Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals. U of New Mexico P, 2016.

Presents aesthetic, political, and cultural analyses of the construction of Mexican American identity through community murals in East Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Bell-Scott, Patricia. The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice. Random House, 2016.

Uses diaries, letters, journals, published and unpublished manuscripts, and oral histories to chart the evolution of a friendship and an alliance for social justice.

Ben-Horin, Michal. Musical Biographies: The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature. De Gruyter, 2016.

Highlights the way post-World War II German and Austrian writers use music to trouble official narratives and traditional perspectives on the National Socialist past.

Berzon, Todd S. Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. U of California P, 2016.

Provides ethnographic classification of identities, origins, doctrines, and customs of heretics from the second to the fifth centuries.

Blake, Sarah. Mr. West. Wesleyan UP, 2015.

Unauthorized lyric biography explores how we are drawn to celebrities, as portrayed in the media, and find private meaning in another person’s public story

Bölts, Stephane. Krankheiten und Textgattungen: Gattungsspezifisches Wissen in Literatur und Medizin um 1800. De Gruyter, 2016.

Investigates how illness was constructed by various writing genres and practices around 1800.

Bona, Mary Jo. Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.

Traces the relationship of cloth-working women and migration in US literary texts from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros.

Boturini Benaduci, Lorenzo. Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico. Edited and translated by Stafford Poole, U of Oklahoma P, 2015.

First English edition of Boturini’s account of his travels in New Spain in 1736.

Bowers, Jack. Strangers at Home: Place, Belonging, and...