Bøker i Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography-serien

Using the diaries (some kept only briefly, others through an entire lifetime) of girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999, this work offers an insight into the self-images of girls and women and the dynamics of families through recent history.

A study of the autobiographical documentary in America from the 1960s to the start of the 21st century. Jim Lane looks at the ways in which autobiographical documentaries such as ""Roger and Me"" and ""Sherman's March"" raise weighty questions about American cultural life.

In post-WWII America, stranger to her own past, Colette Inez survives a harrowing adolescence and a menacing, abusive adoptive family by defining her solace in a passion for literature. This memoir, spans two continents, a trail of discovery, and a buried secret that allowed her to reconcile her past, present and finally come of age as an artist.

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.

Examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, this work illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape.

Identifying and documenting the conditions of Russian serfs has proven difficult because the Russian state discouraged literacy among the serfs and censored public expressions of dissent. This title offers a collection of autobiographies by serfs.

An autobiography of Yi-Fu Tuan, a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and environment.