{"product_id":"life-writing-in-the-long-run-a-smith-and-watson-autobiography-studies-reader-paperback","title":"Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith and Watson Autobiography Studies Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSidonie Ann Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulia Anne Watson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife Writing in the Long Run gathers twenty-one essays by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson written in collaboration or solo and published over the last quarter-century. It includes the introductions to their five edited collections; essays focused on such autobiographical genres as autoethnography, Bildungsroman, diary, digital life writing, genealogy, graphic memoir, human rights witnessing, manifesto; and essays engaging the key concepts of authenticity, performativity, postcoloniality, relationality, and visuality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Available in print, eBook, and open access versions, this collection captures decades of exciting developments in the field, making it indispensable reading for courses on modes and media of self-presentation in cultural, gender, and literary studies and feminist theory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSidonie Smith and Julia Watson co-authored \u003ci\u003eReading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e (2001; expanded edition, 2010) and co-edited five collections: \u003ci\u003eBefore They Could Vote: American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819-1919\u003c\/i\u003e (2006); \u003ci\u003eInterfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance \u003c\/i\u003e(2002); \u003ci\u003eWomen, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (1998); \u003ci\u003eGetting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); and \u003ci\u003eDe\/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1992). They have published influential essays on life writing, most recently on testimony and on online life narrative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sidonie Smith is Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English and Women's Studies, and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. She is a past president of the Modern Language Association of America (2010). Her books include \u003ci\u003eManifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times\u003c\/i\u003e (2015); \u003ci\u003eMoving Lives: Women's Twentieth- Century Travel Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e (2001);\u003ci\u003e Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); \u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Women's Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); and, with Kay Schaffer, \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights and Narrated Lives\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Julia Watson is Professor Emerita of Comparative Studies, a former Associate Dean, and a Core Faculty member of Project Narrative at The Ohio State University. Her recent essays are on visual diary, graphic memoir, and voice in memoir.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42113267368071,"sku":"9781607854098","price":63.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f8f4acae8fe38040afdba88c8084ae3f.webp?v=1732486596","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/life-writing-in-the-long-run-a-smith-and-watson-autobiography-studies-reader-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}