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- ItemOtherwor(l)ds: the utopian impulse in Cixous, Wittig and Piercy(1993) Schoenberg, Judy
- ItemThe Fragmentation of Central Authority in Pleurer-rire and Shame(1993) Goldman, Jennifer; Anyinefa, Koffi, 1959-; Roberts, Deborah H.; Bernstein, Carol
- ItemPirandello E Borges: Studio Su La Realta E L'Illusione Nel Rapporto Autore-Personaggio(1993) Rios, Mary Ann
- ItemConnecting Time in Proust and Stoppard(1995) Irwin, Amanda E.
- ItemRevitalizing Testimonies: Totalitarians, Mice, and Collective Memory(1995) Robfogel, SamuelIn this essay, I examine the function of in the narratives of two writers who reexamine moments of great personal anguish. 6 In Maus: A Survivor's Tale, the comic book artist Art Spiegelman tells the story of his father's survival of the Nazi Final Solution, while at the same time describing his own difficulties in assimilating that story. In Preso sin nombre, celda sin numero, Argentine journalist and political activist Jacobo Timerman recounts his imprisonment during the Argentine "Dirty War." Timerman's 1981 memoir tells the story of his torture at the hands of the military dictatorship that would rule Argentina from 1976 until 1983.
- ItemResistance to Translation: Repercussions in Sylvia Raphael's Rendition of George Sand's Indiana(1997) Taylor, Hilary Stokes
- ItemCarnival and Contemporary Theater(1998) Bridger, Jonathan
- ItemUtopia and Its Discontents: An Analysis of Cronos and Night of the Living Dead(1998) Greenberg, Perci A.
- ItemCreating an Image of Walt Whitman in the "Oda a Watlt [sic] Whitman"(1999) Carrasquillo, Pedro; Burshatin, Israel; Roberts, Deborah H.; Stadler, Gustavus
- ItemThe Self Undone : [transgressive desire in Gide and Baldwin](1999) Duck, J.T.
- ItemReading Between the Lines: Intertextuality and the Freedom of Interpretation in A.S. Byatt's Possession: a Romance and Umberto Eco's Il nome della rosa(2000) Nusbaum, Juliet; Roberts, Deborah H.; Dersofi, Nancy; Allen, Elizabeth
- Item"Why We Tell Stories"(2000) Pitt, Eleanor
- ItemA Truth with Points of View(2001) Leuschke, KateMy fieldwork in Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico forms the base of this text which focuses on the production of ethnographic life histories. Several excerpts from my fieldnotes are included and analyzed through traditional anthropological and literature lenses. I look at the way life histories are related to the Crisis of Representation in anthropology, to linguistics, feminism, and autoethnography. Using my own work and the published life histories of Oscar Lewis, R.M. Keesing, Vincent Crapanzano, Elisabeth Burgos-Deray, and Ruth Behar, I claim that the model of a reader-author contract from literature studies can illuminate the processes involved in the production of an ethnographic life history. This contract must be extended to take into account the agency of the subject of the life history. I examine various aspects of the contract itself, manipulations of both the form and the content of a text which represents the encounter between the anthropologist and the subject. I claim that the primary way readers are able to engage with a text is through a sense of empathy and identification with one of the "characters." This identification can allow the reader to feel that they are part of an unmediated dialogue with the subject because they inhabit the character of the anthropologist. I call attention to the problems with this assumption and the ambiguous nature of identification as a tool of interpretation. Finally, I argue that identification and therefore other basic tenets of the reader-author-subject contract must be renegotiated in order to allow conversation to occur on equal terms between subject, anthropologist and reader of life histories.