Biography, vol. 31, no. 1 (2008): Autographics

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EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

Self-Regarding Art
Gillian Whitlock and Anna Poletti, v

This Introduction to the Biography Special Issue on “Autographics” maps a field of texts and critical practices which are emerging in the rapidly changing visual and textual cultures of autobiography. Beginning with a survey of current thinking about the comics, it argues for autographic criticism as a practice that engages with new modes and media, such as graffiti and online social networking, where autobiographical narrative proliferates through fusions of the visual and the textual.

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Manoa, vol. 20, no. 1 (2008): Gates of Reconciliation

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Gates of Reconciliation: Literature and the Ethical Imagination

Edited by Frank Stewart and Barry Lopez

In this collection of essays, fiction, and poetry set in South America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Asia, the United States, and elsewhere, a diverse group of writers explores the role of literature in confronting the most pressing issue of our time: how individuals, communities, and nations can reconcile differences and grievances and forge a future with a renewed sense of dignity and mutual respect.

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E. Alison Kay, 1928-2008

E. Alison Kay, the longest-serving editor of Pacific Science, was remembered yesterday at a service in the chapel of Punahou School, her alma mater. Two of her books published by UH Press are still in print: Shells of Hawaii (1991, with Olive Schoenberg-Dole) and A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II (1994).

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