Table of Contents: “…." / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Walking among the stars / Carter Revard -- On native ground / Jim Barnes -- Crows written on the poplars : autocritical autobiographies / Gerald Vizenor -- Shouting back to the geese / Jack D. Forbes -- Autobiographical sketch / Duane Niatum -- The autobiography of a confluence / Paula Gunn Allen -- Those dead guys for a hundred years / Jimmie Durham -- Two dresses / Diane Glancy -- The language we know / Simon J. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Don Talayesva and Gregorio: two Indian autobiographers and their social scientists --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Adding color and contour to early American self-portraitures: autobiographical writings of Afro-American women /…”

Table of Contents: “…Recovering Mexican American autobiography -- Autobiographical prefigurations : the encodations of accommodation -- "It is my history, not yours I propose to tell" : history as autobiography in Mariano G. …”

Table of Contents: “…The autobiographical: 1989 through 2001 -- Mass culture and popular journalism -- New York postmodernism and black cultural studies -- Multiculturalism in the arts -- Henry Louis Gates and African American poststructuralism -- Queer theory and visual culture.…”

Table of Contents: “…A brief autobiographical note -- A region, a place, a man -- The world of work--as experienced and interpreted by older men -- Strong women -- What did you learn in school today? …”

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois : the black women in his writings- selected fictional and autobiographical portraits / Nellie McKay.…”

Table of Contents: “…The shape of a life -- The formative years and beyond -- Abolitionism: the travail of a "great life's work" -- The politics of a race leader -- Humanism, race, and leadership -- Social reform -- The ideology of white supremacy -- Feminism, race, and social reform -- The philosophy and pursuit of social reform -- National identity, culture, and science -- A composite American nationality -- Ethnology and equality -- The autobiographical Douglass -- Self-made man, self-conscious hero.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: national identity and the autobiographical self -- Rigoberta Menchú and survival culture in Guatemala -- State, national, and gender identity: Maria Campbell, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Domitilia Barrios de Chungara -- Myths of revolution and nation in Pierre Vallières and Omar Cabezas -- Nation, family, and language in Victor Perera's Rites and Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman warrior -- Reading the nation and writing the self in Richard Rodriguez's Days of obligation -- Conclusion: the tools of the national imagination.…”

Table of Contents: “…Several lives in one : Frederick Douglass's autobiographical art -- They knew what time it was : African Americans and the coming of the Civil War -- No desperate hero : manhood and freedom in a Union soldier's experience -- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : a relationship in language, politics, and memory -- "For something beyond the battlefield" : Frederick Douglass and the struggle for the memory of the Civil War -- A quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? …”

Table of Contents: “…Marshall, February 14, 1817 -- An autobiographical sketch : To Joseph Delaplaine, March 22, 1818 -- Opinion in Dartmouth College v. …”