TY - CHAP
T1 - Autobiography
AU - Woods, Gioia
PY - 2011/5/27
Y1 - 2011/5/27
KW - Autobiography, an act recapitulating - dominant narratives, marginalized lives into historical records
KW - Autobiography, seeming - like the product of an individual's act
KW - Emigration, and periodic writing about emigration - shaping western identities in a "new" social realm
KW - Genre, making history and conveying cultural information - examining the American West
KW - Ivan Doig's This House of Sky (1978) - celebrated memoir, theme of the search for home
KW - La Relación, reference point - for readers of western American autobiography
KW - Leslie Marmon Silko, rewriting the American West - and the western American self in Storyteller
KW - Native American autobiography, in understanding - "natural," the self, actually a cultural convention
KW - The American West, complex stage in which to read and write the "I" - culturally and environmentally diverse, legacy of multiple ideologies and desires
KW - Western American autobiography - not providing experience with "authentic" West, or the "true" self
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444396591.ch21
DO - 10.1002/9781444396591.ch21
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84885551865
SN - 9781405187336
SP - 336
EP - 352
BT - A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -