Memory

Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Chapter 2, "Autobiographical Subjects"

It's hard to evaluate this book: it mainly seems a rather bland literature review, but one that nevertheless introduces key terms and interesting examples. In place of my typical effort to annotate the argument carefully, I'm going to try taking at least parts of the text in a "commonplace book" mode. This from the first section of chapter 2, devoted to "memory."

Olney on Augustine, Memory and Narrative, 19-21

Silko, Leslie. Storyteller. New York: Arcarde Publishers, Little Brown & Co., 1981.

Engel, Susan. Context Is Everything: the Nature of Memory. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1999.

Wolf, Christa. Patterns of Childhood: (formerly a Model Childhood). New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1984.

Alexie, Sherman. First Indian on the Moon. Brooklyn N.Y.: Hanging Loose Press, 1993.

"communities of memory"

Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae. Vibration Cooking, or, the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.

"an intersubjective phenomenon" mitchell 193 n17

Augustine's pears

Akmatova, A Poem without a Hero

"communities of memory"

Akhmatova, Anna. A Poem Without a Hero. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1973. (trauma, conscience) ; Art's ... dead mother, n2 "postmemory"

scriptotherapy

Henke, Suzette. Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing. London: Macmillan, 1998.

Fraser, Sylvia. My father's house : a memoir of incest and of healing. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988.

Mairs, Nancy. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

The "self-absorption" fallacy:

Wurtzel, Elizabeth. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. New York NY: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998.

Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography. Boston Mass.: D.R. Godine, 1982.