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Cornelia Peake McDonald's story records a personal battle of her own - a southern woman's struggle in the midst of chaos to provide safety and shelter for herself and her nine children. Her diary shows that history is as much a domestic subject as an account of the public affairs of men.

A study of the autobiographical writings of Mexican Americans in the century following the US-Mexican War of 1846-1848. Faced with the deliberate obliteration of their culture, these people set down the stories of their lives and communities, as a means of both remembering and resisting.

This text focuses on the writing by and about people with illness or disability. Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies, or those of loved ones, from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse.

This study of pre-Civil War American slave autobiography appears here in a new edition. It represents slave narratives as literary in the complete sense of the word, and also calls attention to gender in the narratives.

An assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. Eleven original essays survey what has been done and point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention.

Presents a collection of life narratives by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in America. This book includes selections that span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly.