Historical overview of the autobiography
1. Forms of autobiography
Cultural values necessary for the creation of autobiography / Georges Gusdorf ; Literary confession and its religious model / Susanna Egan ; Montaigne's Essays : a method of knowing the self / James Olney ; Memoir : the interior life meets the exterior world / Annie Dillard ; Autobiographical fiction : James Joyce and the artistic transformation of fact / Suzanne Nalbantian
2. Anglo-American autobiographies
History as personal experience / Alfred Kazin ; Many masks of Benjamin Franklin / Robert F. Sayre ; Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman : seeking the infinite self / Brian Harding ; The education of Henry Adams : neglected masterpiece / James M. Cox ; Norman Mailer : the novelist as public citizen / Albert E. Stone
3. Ethnic American autobiographies
Autobiographical conventions and ethnic American experience / James Craig Holte ; Power of literacy in Frederick Douglass's Narrative / Valerie Smith ; Testimonial and the blues : modes of African American autobiography / Elizabeth Schultz ; Invisible author of The autobiography of Malcolm X / John Edgar Wideman ; N. Scott Momaday : Native American autobiographer / H. David Brumble III
4. Women's autobiographies
Women's autobiography and the male tradition / Estelle C. Jelinek ; Politics, love, and personal integrity in Emma Goldman's Living my life / Blanche H. Gelfant ; Matrilineal bond in Margaret Mead's Blackberry winter / Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos ; Lillian Hellman and Anais Nin : masculine and feminine pitfalls of liberation / Patricia Meyer Spacks ; Song of a caged bird : Maya Angelou's quest for self-acceptance / Sidonie Ann Smith.
