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Auto/Biography and Mediation

Herausgeber: Hornung, Alfred

American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 190

2012

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Abstract

The essays by American, Asian, Australian and European critics collected here demonstrate the opening up of auto/biography studies to the border-crossing implied by the concept of mediation: processes of social and cultural translation are examined in various forms – from photographic self-representation to oral histories – and practices, from media coverage through marketing of written lives to performing the self. These essays reveal that auto/biography goes much further than the narrow examination of an individual’s life; for instance, life narratives intersect human rights in post-Apartheid South Africa, genomics is haunted by the structure of eugenics, and quilting can reveal a material history to those who can decode it. In mediating these lives, the essays ask us to engage with diverse questions of ethics, gender politics, postcolonial critique, institutional frameworks, and the basic question of how acts of mediation influence the telling and re-telling of lives.

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Table of Contents V
Introduction XI
1. Writing and Reading Lives 1
Craig Howes - Doing Biograpy 3
Manuela Costantino - The Sensational Life of Latifa 15
Emily Hipchen - Mediating Truths in Adoption Search Narratives 21
Mediational Failures 31
Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith - Intimacies of Power 33
Laurie McNeill - Memory Failure 51
Susan Tridgell - Autobiographies of Asylum and Detention 61
2. Mediating Historiers 71
Gabriele Linke - "What happend to the story?" 73
Britta Feyerabend - Quilting Auto/Biographies 89
Mirjam Truwant - Female Authorship an the Idea of the German Nation, 1859 to 1939 101
Marijke Huisman - Selling the Self: Publishing and Marketing... 117
3. Media Loops 129
Susanna Egan - Auto/Biographical Impostures as Media Sensations 131
Carmen Birkle - Meditation and Appropriation 139
Hannes Schweiger - Borderless Identities? 161
Julia Rak - Identity's Industry: Genre and Memoirs 173
Xu Dejin - China Narratives, Mediation, and the Problemati of Readership 183
Jeremy D. Popkin - Academic Autobiography 195
4. Relational Selves 205
Roger D. Sell - Mediational Ethics in Churchill's "My Early Life" 207
Micha Gerrit, Philipp Edlich - Connecting Selves with Kitkitdizze... 227
Leili Golafshani - Negative Relational Autobiography 237
Richard Freadman - "What for do I have to remember this"" 245
5. Inventing the Self 255
Eugene Stelzig - Hermann Hesse's Fantastic Mediation(s) of the Self in "Steppenwolf" 257
Ioana Luca - Between Two Worlds 271
Johan Callens - Auto/Biography in American Performance 287
Michael K. Glenday - Norman Mailer: Biography and Imaginary Memoir 305
6. Crossing Genres 317
Manfred Mittermayer - Intermediality in Thomas Bernhard's Autobiography 319
Regine Strätling - Potential Autobiographies 329
Heidi Isaksen - The Role of Border-Crossing in Mediating Dominated Voices 339
Shannon Donaldson-McHugh - Performing Autobiographical Limits 351
7. Religion and Meditation 363
Bärbel Höttges - No God's Land 365
Sabine N. Meyer - Writing the Life of a Controversial Historical Figure 377
Kerstin Vogel - Mediating Native Lives 387
John D. Barbour - Tribal Religions in Modern Travel Narratives by Greene, Lévi-Strauss, and Chatwin 397
8. Mediating Roots and Routes 409
Evelyn Hawthorne and Paul Vanouse - Race, Jamaican Bodies, and Eugenics/Genomics 411
Mary Montemayor - "Breaking the Silence 435
Yvonne Gutenberger - Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi" 443
Sam Raditlhalo - Migrations of Texts: Mediating Double Modernities 457
Alexander J. Beissenhirtz - Jazz Autobiographies as Vernacular Literature 473
Sabine Sörgel - "Like an endless stream of lava and love..." 483
Chris Barry - Cultural Dialogues and Self-Constructions in Australia 495
9. Speaking with the Dead 521
Zhang Xin-Ke - Tombstone Inscription and Chinese Biography 523
Jianqiu Sun - Photograpy and Psychography 531
Deborah Holmes - Portraits of a Lady 549
Bernhard Fetz - Performance and Mediality 559