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Author:

Bidinger, Elizabeth.

Title:

The ethics of working class autobiography : representation of family by four American authors / Elizabeth Bidinger.

Publisher:

McFarland & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

ix, 202 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Baker, Russell,--1925---Growing up.
Wideman, John Edgar.--Brothers and keepers.
Nesaule, Agate.--Woman in amber.
Mason, Bobbie Ann.--Clear Springs.
Authors, American--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Authors, American--20th century.--Biography.
Working class authors--United States--Biography.
Autobiography--Moral and ethical aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.

Contents:

A world apart : working class autobiographers and their families -- Life with "a formidable woman" : Russell Baker's ethical representations in Growing up -- Inventing the self and the (br)other in John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and keepers -- Autobiography as healing : Agate Nesaule's A woman in amber -- "My folks and their country culture" : inventing authenticity in Bobbie Ann Mason's Clear Springs.

Summary:

"Focusing on the ethics of autobiography, this volume analyzes the works of four writers who spent much of their youth in working-class circumstances yet became highly educated intellectual professionals. It examines the way in which they confront their working-class past. In addition to representing different times, each work recounts the author's struggle with a particular societal element"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780786425761 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786425768 (softcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)68221172

LCCN:

2006014352

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)