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THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography William L. Andrews, Series Editor Before They Could Vote American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819–1919 Edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition-some well known, some forgotten over generations—who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. 2006, 470 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-22050-1 Cl. $75.00s ISBN 978-0-299-22054-9 Pa. $26.95s Campaigns of Curiosity Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in Late Victorian London Elizabeth L. Banks Introduction by Mary Suzanne Schriber and Abbey Zink Banks' page-turning autobiography is a story of a local girl who made good, moving from a Wisconsin farm to a career in journalism. She provides examples of what a career-minded Midwestern woman could and couldn't do at the turn of the century, the kinds of journalism that were open to women, and the ways they managed to broaden the scope of their travel features and investigative reports. 2003, 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-18940-2 Cl. $55.00s ISBN 978-0-299-18944-0 Pa. $21.95t The Secret of M. Dulong A Memoir Colette Inez "Colette Inez spins a story whose themes are epic, but also intimate, personal, and entirely true. This is one of the loveliest, most heartfelt memoirs I've read, charting a woman's search for her past and ultimately herself . . . in a transcendent celebration of wit and intellect."—A. M. Homes, author of Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects 2005, 272 pp., 14 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-299-21420-3 Cl. $29.95t The Woman in Battle The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier Loreta Janeta Velazquez Introduction by Jesse Alemán Originally published in 1876 as The Woman in Battle, this Civil War narrative offers a seemingly impossible autobiographical account of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban woman who cross-dressed as Harry T. Buford and fought for the Confederacy. Velazquez recounts her military career as Buford, her clandestine romances and adventures as a Confederate double agent, and her post-war travels through Latin America and the American West. 2003, 632 pp., 42 b/w illustrations ISBN 978-0-299-19420-8 Cl. $65.00s ISBN 978-0-299-19424-6 Pa. $26.95t American Lives An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing Edited by Robert F. Sayre American Lives is a groundbreaking book, the first historically organized anthology of American autobiographical writing, bringing us fifty-five voices from throughout the nation's history. 1994, 752 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-14240-7 Cl. $65.00s ISBN 978-0-299-14244-5 Pa. $34.95t The Text Is Myself Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe Miriam Fuchs "Miriam Fuchs is breaking new ground. Her remarkable exploration of catastrophe writing will be important in autobiography studies and fascinating to all who care about self-representation as a mode of survival."—Susanna Egan, author of Mirror-Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography 2003, 238 pp., 12 b/w photos, 4 figures ISBN 978-0-299-19064-4 Pa. $24.95s Rosa The Life of an Italian Immigrant Second Edition Marie Hall Ets With a foreword by Rudolph Vecoli and a new introduction by Helen Barolini A vivid, richly detailed account, this is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, an Italian woman who came to the United States in 1884. 1999, 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-16254-2 Pa. $16.95t Voices Made Flesh Performing Women's Autobiography Edited by Lynn C. Miller, Jacqueline Taylor, and M. Heather Carver "For women, the autobiographical voice is rarely singular, but instead exists in chorus with a cluster of other women's voices."—from the introduction 2003, 334 pp., 11 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-299-18424-7 Pa. $26.95s Writing Desire Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography Bertram J. Cohler "A fascinating exploration of how time and place have shaped both the writing and the reading of six generations of gay men's life stories. An outstanding contribution to the narrative study of lives and life-course social science." —Henry L. Minton, author of Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America 2007, 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-22200-0 Cl. $60.00s ISBN 978-0-299-22204-8 Pa. $24.95s Harriet Tubman The Life and the Life Stories Jean M. Humez In the first major biography and study of Harriet Tubman in sixty years, Jean M. Humez includes a complete collection of Tubman's autobiographical stories culled from rare early publications and manuscript sources. 2003, 464 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-19120-7 Cl. $45.00t The Blind African Slave Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace Jeffrey Brace as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq. Edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter "It is my anxious wish that this simple narrative may be the means of opening the hearts of those who hold slaves and move them to consent to give them the freedom which...all mankind have an equal right to possess."—Jeffrey Brace, from The Blind African Slave 2004, 184 pp., 4 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-299-20140-1 Cl. $65.00s ISBN 978-0-299-20144-9 Pa. $19.95t To order, call 1-800-621-2736 or visit our Web site: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/   THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography William L. Andrews, Series Editor How I Became a Human Being A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence Mark O'Brien, with Gillian Kendall In 1955, Mark O'Brien contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from the neck down. Here he describes growing up without the use of his limbs, his adolescence struggling with physical rehabilitation and suffering the bureaucracy of hospitals and institutions, and his adult life as an independent student and writer. "Writing this kind of memoir requires-in addition to the sheer stamina and grit it must have cost Mark O'Brien with his great physical debility-a truly tempered personality and, dare I say it, greatness of character."—Felice Picano, author of Like People in History, The Lure, and Onyx 2003, 278 pp., 13 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-299-18430-8 Cl. $29.95t Diaries of Girls and Women A Midwestern American Sampler Edited by Suzanne L. Bunkers "No one is more qualified to undertake such a project. . . . This book will fill an important niche in the literature of American women's diaries."—Margo Culley, author of American Women's Autobiography 2001, 472 pp., 34 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-299-17220-6 Cl. $60.00s ISBN 978-0-299-17224-4 Pa. $24.95s The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854–1863 Caroline Seabury Edited with an introduction by Suzanne L. Bunkers The Civil War diary of a Northern governess in the South. 1991, 160 pp., 10 halftones ISBN 978-0-299-12870-8 Cl. $30.00s ISBN 978-0-299-12874-6 Pa. $12.95s Jumping the Line The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical William Herrick With an introduction by Paul Berman 1998, 308 pp., 24 illus. (b/w photos & line drawings) ISBN 978-0-299-15790-6 Cl. $21.95t Who Am I? An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit Yi-Fu Tuan "A stunningly good book-entrancing, exciting, beautifully written, full of aperçus that stimulate, tantalize, and fulfill. Perhaps it is enough to say that I like it even better than any of Tuan's already published books."—David Lowenthal, author of The Past Is a Foreign Country 1999, 150 pp., 17 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-299-16660-1 Cl. $21.95t The Examined Self Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, Henry James Robert F. Sayre 1988, 212 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-11644-6 Pa. $14.95s Maverick Autobiographies Women Writers and the American West, 1900–1936 Cathryn Halverson "Maverick autobiographies don't fit the mold. Instead of rooting themselves in their native West, Opal Whiteley, Mary MacLane, and Juanita Harrison moved away from it, ignored it, hated it, flaunted it, and manipulated it. They also used their western background in surprising ways to help create original roles for themselves. Halverson shows how these three adventurous memoirists defy our expectations and provide fresh ways to view western American women's writing."—Kathleen A. Boardman, University of Nevada, Reno 2004, 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-19720-9 Cl. $45.00s The Autobiographical Documentary in America Jim Lane "Lane's convincing argument is backed up by analysis of some of the most interesting documentary work of the past three decades. A must-read for anyone studying or making documentary."—Julia Lesage, University of Oregon, coeditor of Jump Cut 2002, 376 pp., 12 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-299-17650-1 Cl. $60.00s ISBN 978-0-299-17654-9 Pa. $29.95s Caribbean Autobiography Cultural Identity and Self-Representation Sandra Pouchet Paquet Life-writing from the colonial era to present-day AIDS memoirs, from Derek Walcott to Mary Prince. "Truly breaks new ground in the field of Caribbean letters."—Carole Boyce Davies, Northwestern University 2002, 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-17690-7 Cl. $60.00s ISBN 978-0-299-17694-5 Pa. $24.95s Livin' the Blues Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet Frank Marshall Davis Edited, with an introduction by John Edgar Tidwell "Both a social commentary and intellectual exploration into African American life in the twentieth century."—Charles Vincent, Atlanta History 1993, 408 pp., 14 halftones ISBN 978-0-299-13500-3 Cl. $34.95t ISBN 978-0-299-13504-1 Pa. $29.95t The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb An American Slave Henry Bibb With a new introduction by Charles J. Heglar "This new edition will be invaluable to students and scholars of the slave narrative tradition and of the broader African American literary tradition. Demonstrating sound scholarship and an eye for detail, Heglar's introduction shows how Bibb's story diverges from other slave narratives in its emphasis on the importance of the slave family."—Christopher De Santis, author of Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender 2001, 304 pp., 21 b/w drawings ISBN 978-0-299-16890-2 Cl. $40.00s ISBN 978-0-299-16894-0 Pa. $18.95x To order, call 1-800-621-2736 or visit our Web site: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 5/07   THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography William L. Andrews, Series Editor Forbidden Family A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941–1945 Margaret Sams Edited by Lynn Z. Bloom Written just five years after the end of World War II, this is Margaret Sams's moving testimony of life in a Japanese internment camp. 1997, 336 pp., 20 b/w photos, 1 map ISBN 978-0-299-12144-0 Pa. $14.95t Intensely Family The Inheritance of Family Shame and the Autobiographies of Henry James Carol Holly "Intensely Family is original in both the material it covers and the approach it takes; it is thorough and scrupulous in its scholarship, clearly and effectively written."—Martha Banta, University of California, Los Angeles 1995, 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-14720-4 Cl. $50.00s ISBN 978-0-299-14724-2 Pa. $23.95s The Education of a WASP Lois Mark Stalvey Chronicles one white woman's discovery of racism in 1960s America. "Delightful and horrible, a singular book."—Choice 1989, 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-11974-4 Pa. $19.95x Women, Autobiography, Theory A Reader Edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson "There is no other reader like this one on theories of women's autobiography, despite the now wide-ranging approaches to this field. . . . It has the merit of combining within the genre of autobiography criticism many of the critical issues that have been paramount during the past two decades, incorporating and going beyond what both feminism and cultural studies have attempted. Important and timely."—Françoise Lionnet, Northwestern University 1998, 544 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-15844-6 Pa. $29.95s A Woman's Civil War A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862 Cornelia Peake McDonald Edited with an introduction by Minrose C. Gwin "[B]oth riveting eyewitness testimony and a story of courage in the face of chaos. Cornelia McDonald's story is a well-written, compelling tale of the Virginia home front in wartime."—Lynda Lasswell Crist, The Virginia Magazine 1992, 352 pp., 6 illus. ISBN 978-0-299-13264-4 Pa. $18.95t American Women's Autobiography Fea(s)ts of Memory Edited with an introduction by Margo Culley These essays trace traditions of women's life-writing through three and a half centuries, from the narratives of Puritan women to contemporary multicultural literature. Contributors to the volume are major scholars in their fields: Sidonie Smith, Catharine Stimpson, Ann Gordon, Mary Mason, Nancy Walker, Kathleen Sands, Arlyn Diamond, and others. 1992, 346 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-13294-1 Pa. $17.95s My History, Not Yours The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography Genaro M. Padilla "This ambitious and accessible book is the best I have seen on Chicano literary culture. Padilla has searched archival sources diligently and has brought to our attention major personal statements-itself no small feat-that treat the definitive events of early Mexican American experience."—Raymund A. Paredes, University of California, Los Angeles 1994, 224 pp., 12 illus. ISBN 978-0-299-13970-4 Cl. $40.00s ISBN 978-0-299-13974-2 Pa. $18.95x Illumination and Night Glare The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers Carson McCullers Edited by Carlos L. Dews "Surely, this important book will lead readers and scholars alike back to McCullers's remarkable fiction."—Virginia Spencer Carr, author of The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers 1999, 280 pp., 21 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-299-16440-9 Cl. $24.95t ISBN 978-0-299-16444-7 Pa. $17.95t The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman An Autobiography Charlotte Perkins Gilman With a foreword by Zona Gale and an introduction by Ann J. Lane "With the emerging awareness of autobiographies by famous women and how they differ from those by men, it is time for The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman to become a permanent addition to the literature. The outline of Gilman's unconventional life, as usually given in reference works and headnotes to her fiction, provides little insight into the brave, vivacious personality that radiates from her autobiography."—Nancy Engbretsen Schaumburger, Belles Lettres 1991, 394 pp., 12 illus. ISBN 978-0-299-12744-2 Pa. $17.95x Journeys in New Worlds Early American Women's Narratives Edited by William L. Andrews, Sargent Bush, Jr., Annette Kolodny, Amy Schrager Lang, and Daniel B. Shea 1990, 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-12584-4 Pa. $14.95x To order, call 1-800-621-2736 or visit our Web site: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/   THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography William L. Andrews, Series Editor Witnessing Slavery The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives Second Edition Frances Smith Foster With a new introduction "Witnessing Slavery is a classic work: it identifies pattern, explains cause, suggests implications. The kernel of its thesis, that black writers have been constrained by the attitudes of white publishers and audiences, is axiomatic in the study of Afro-American literature. . . . Its achievement is that it demonstrates in concrete and convincing detail how these principles function, while illuminating the literary qualities of a body of literature generally considered to lack them."—Susan L. Blake, Black American Literature Forum 1994, 200 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-14214-8 Pa. $17.95s Native American Autobiography An Anthology Edited by Arnold Krupat "Arnold Krupat is the leading scholar in the study of autobiographies, and this collection is one of the most comprehensive representations of life stories by Native Americans."—Gerald Vizenor, University of California­Berkeley 1994, 560 pp., 20 halftones ISBN 978-0-299-14020-5 Cl. $49.95s ISBN 978-0-299-14024-3 Pa. $24.95x People of the Book Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin "What is fresh and exhilarating about this volume is the articulation of a wide array of very personal views on Jewish identity. . . . They emanate from scholars in secular fields who are uninterested in pleading a cause, staking a claim, organizing a movement, or promoting an agenda, yet whose emotional ties to Jewish peoplehood, values, and ideals are pronounced and eminently worth discovering."—Rabbi Stanley M. Wagner, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver 1996, 528 pp., 5 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-299-15010-5 Cl. $49.95s ISBN 978-0-299-15014-3 Pa. $24.95s Recovering Bodies Illness, Disability, and Life Writing G. Thomas Couser With a foreword by Nancy Mairs Provocative writing by and about people with illness or disability-in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis—who challenge the stigmas by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. 1997, 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-15560-5 Cl. $55.00s ISBN 978-0-299-15564-3 Pa. $24.95t Winner of the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature The Zea Mexican Diary 7 September 1926–7 September 1986 Kamau Brathwaite With a foreword by Sandra Pouchet Paquet "Simply the most riveting, most poetic, most beautifully rendered autobiographical narrative that I've read in a long time."—Daryl Cumber Dance, author of New World Adams 1993, 112 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-13640-6 Cl. $24.95t ISBN 978-0-299-13644-4 Pa. $18.95s Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams Joanne Jacobson "Authority and Alliance brings new insights to the work of Henry Adams and to epistolary objectives and modes of operation."—Cecilia Tichi, Vanderbilt University 1992, 176 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-13444-0 Pa. $12.95s Mark Twain's Own Autobiography The Chapters from the North American Review Mark Twain Edited by Michael Kiskis 1990, 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-12544-8 Pa. $18.95t The Making of a Chicano Militant Lessons from Cristal José Angel Gutiérrez "Long overdue, this memoir of one of the giants that led the powerful Chicano movement is provocative, insightful, and extremely revealing. . . . A major contribution to the study of Chicano politics."—Armando Navarro, author of The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control 1999, 348 pp., 31 b/w illus., 1 map ISBN 978-0-299-15984-9 Pa. $19.95t My Generation Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics John Downton Hazlett "My Generation offers exceptionally perceptive readings of autobiographical works by veterans of the 1960s culture wars, from the 'annunciatory narrative' of the Port Huron Statement to the self-consciously elegiac reflections of such Movement veterans as Tom Hayden and Todd Gitlin."—Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History, University of Wisconsin—Madison 1998, 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-299-15780-7 Cl. $45.00s ISBN 978-0-299-15784-5 Pa. $19.95t To order, call 1-800-621-2736 or visit our Web site: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 5/07

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