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American Women's Life Writing: respond to a response
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Monday, April 12, 2010. Respond to a response. Prepare a one-paragraph response to Sidonie Smith's characterization of Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior. Smith called it "an autobiography about women's autobiography." What do you think about this? If it is, in fact, an autobiography about autobiography, what does it tell us about the genre? Choose one moment in the text and offer a close reading that supports your claims. Selves in the Making.
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American Women's Life Writing: Mary Antin Introduction
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Consider Antin's introduction to The Promised Land. I was born, I have lived, and I have been made over. Is it not time to write my life's story? No; they early let me run in the fields—perhaps because I would not be held—and eat of the wild fruits and drink of the dew. Did they teach me from books, and tell me what to believe? I soon chose my own books, and built me a world of my own. Perhaps I have taken needless trouble...
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American Women's Life Writing: required blog post
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Forget the immediacy of your lives for a moment and trace the genealogy of one of your sensibilities. Choose something about yourself - your preference for root vegetables or your belief in social justice - and reconstruct its lineage. What are the first traces of this inclination? How did it develop over time? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Selves in the Making. A Leftie with Love to Spare. Among the Fairer Sex.
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American Women's Life Writing: February 2010
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Forget the immediacy of your lives for a moment and trace the genealogy of one of your sensibilities. Choose something about yourself - your preference for root vegetables or your belief in social justice - and reconstruct its lineage. What are the first traces of this inclination? How did it develop over time? Feb 22 mailing a self. 24 “This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me- ”. 3 William Decker, ...
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American Women's Life Writing: 20 Years
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Jane Addams's Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. Is our book for next week. I love this text and it changed- and continues to change- the way that I thought/think about autobiography, myself, my world, the. Chap 1 Earliest Impressions. Chap 2 Influence of Lincoln. Chap 3 Boarding School Ideals. Chap 4 Snare of Preparation. Chap 5 First Days at Hull-House. Chap 6 Subjective Necessity. Among the Fairer...
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American Women's Life Writing: January 2010
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Thursday, January 28, 2010. Readings for Next week. Parts One and Two of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. You can find it here. Start to think about the relationship between print metaphors and the language of printing and self-formation. Smith and Watson, pp. 1-109. Emily will present on Wednesday. Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Readings for next week. Jan 25 early rumblings on this side of the atlantic. Juy 10th, 1666”. Selves in the Making.
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American Women's Life Writing: blog presentations
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Wednesday, April 21, 2010. You should prepare a 5-7 minute presentation (the buzzer- err, bizzer? How has the work of blogging changed the way you live your life (Gillian's inquiry)? Is it something you can imagine continuing? Why or why not? What has been your experience of reading other blogs and engaging in a textual community online? How have your graphic strategies corresponded to your textual ones? Good luck and have fun with this. No Fury L...
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American Women's Life Writing: slight scheduling changes
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Feb 22 mailing a self. 1 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual" [BB] [Lauren presents]. 2 Konstantin Dierks, “The Familiar Letter and Social Refinement in America, 1750-1800,” in Letter Writing as a Social Practice, in David Barton and Nigel Hall, eds., pp 31-42 [BB] [Dawn presents]. 24 “This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me- ”. 1 Emily Dickinson, selections on BB. Selves in t...
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American Women's Life Writing: April 2010
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American Women's Life Writing. Studying the self in 2010. Wednesday, April 21, 2010. You should prepare a 5-7 minute presentation (the buzzer- err, bizzer? How has the work of blogging changed the way you live your life (Gillian's inquiry)? Is it something you can imagine continuing? Why or why not? What has been your experience of reading other blogs and engaging in a textual community online? How have your graphic strategies corresponded to your textual ones? Good luck and have fun with this. Smith cal...
