Editor’s Note, p. iv
ARTICLES
Alan Rosen
Autobiography from the Other Side: The Reading of Nazi Memoirs and Confessional Ambiguity, p. 553
While most autobiographers can expect sympathetic readings of their work, autobiography “from the other side” deals with lives, and thus narratives, characterized by a profound indecency. This essay explores author and reader strategies found in Nazi memoirs, using Rudolf Hoess’s “My Soul” as a test case. By examining the work’s confessional transparency, the memoir’s complex nature and questionable power are revealed, as the confession that we read is undermined by the confessions witnessed within the text.
Kimberly Nance
Disarming Testimony: Speakers’ Resistance to Readers’ Defenses in Latin American Testimonio, p. 570
Testimonio is part of an explicitly social and political project, to which both external censorship and internalized psychosocial constraints on the narration of trauma are identified obstacles. However, the social demands that testimonio places on its addressees also pose threats to readers, collaborating writers, and critics, who generate their own forms of cognitive and psychological protection.
REVIEWS
Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America, by Gelya Frank, p. 589
Reviewed by Mary Grimley Mason
Autobiography and Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties, by Margo V. Perkins, p. 591
Reviewed by Jane Davis
Beyond Nostalgia: Aging and Life-Story Writing, by Ruth E. Ray, p. 594
Reviewed by Maxine Borowsky Junge
Récits de vie et medias, by Philippe Lejeune, p. 595
Reviewed by Roland A. Champagne
Genèses du “Je”: Manuscrits et autobiographie edited by Philippe Lejeune and Catherine Viollet, p. 598
Reviewed by Roland A. Champagne
Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian’s Conquest of History, by Grant Hardy, p. 600
Reviewed by Alan Berkowitz
The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible, by Ilana Pardes, p. 607
Reviewed by Susan Niditch
Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun, by Michael Cooperson, p. 609
Reviewed by Tayeb El-Hibri
St. Cuthbert: His Life and Cult in Medieval Durham, by Dominic Marner, p. 613
Reviewed by Edward Peters
“A Mirror for Magistrates” and the “de casibus” Tradition, by Paul Budra, p. 616
Reviewed by Elizabeth McCutcheon
Of Self and Nation: Autobiography and the Representation of Modern Indonesia, by C. W. Watson, p. 620
Reviewed by Susan Rodgers
Selfish Gifts: Senegalese Women’s Autobiographical Discourses, by Lisa McNee, p. 625
Reviewed by Claudia Hoffer Gosselin
Women’s Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America, by Kristine Ibsen, p. 634
Reviewed by Ronald J. Morgan
The Intimate Empire: Reading Women’s Autobiography, by Gillian Whitlock, p. 639
Reviewed by Stephan Meyer
The Portraits of Madame Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante, by Elise Goodman, p. 644
Reviewed by Larry W. Riggs
Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women, by James Smith Allen, p. 649
Reviewed by Helynne Hollstein Hansen
Biographical Passages: Essays on Victorian and Modernist Biography, edited by Joe Law and Linda K. Hughes, p. 653
Reviewed by Deborah Martinson
Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text, by Jeremy Gibson and Julian Wolfreys, p. 656
Reviewed by Joseph H. O’Mealy
Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature by James D. Hartman, p. 659
Reviewed by Jonathan Levin
The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck, by John W. M. Hallock, p. 662
Reviewed by Charles Shively
Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities, by Laura Browder, p. 665
Reviewed by Sean Meehan
Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation, by Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr., p. 669
Reviewed by Graham Russell Hodges
Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese-Americans of California, 1929-1949, by David K. Yoo, p. 670
Reviewed by Jean Toyama
What Price Fame?, by Tyler Cowen, p. 675
Reviewed by Ann Larabee
Autobiography and National Identity in the Americas, by Steven V. Hunsaker, p. 678
Reviewed by James V. Fenelon
REVIEWED ELSEWHERE, p. 681
Excerpts from recent reviews of biographies, autobiographies, and other works of interest
LIFELINES, p. 768
Upcoming events, calls for papers, and news from the field
CONTRIBUTORS, p. 774
