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Contents

INTRODUCTION The Enduring Impulse to Tell about the Self and the South Carmen Rueda-Ramos and Susana Jiménez Placer

PART 1 SUBVERSIVE (RE)CREATIONS OF THE SELF—PAST AND PRESENT

‘My Story Is Better Than Yours’: The Changing Politics of and Motives for Composing Southern African American Life Narratives Trudier Harris

Working a Lever: Booker T. Washington’s Autobiographies as Tools for Social Change Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr

PART 2 THE LEGACY OF RACE:RECONCILING SELVES

‘I Knew Then Who I Was’: Memory, Narrative, and Sense of Self in Autobiographies of the Jim Crow South Jennifer Ritterhouse

Daily Encounters: The Coming of Age of Melton A. McLaurin Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Life Writing in Poetry and Prose: Natasha Tretheway’s Personal and National Revelations Pearl McHaney

Southern Autobiography Around the Table of Brotherhood: A Dream Deferred, a Dream Deceased, a Dream Destroyed, a Dream Dismissed? Ineke Bockting

PART 3 AUTHORS,NARRATORS AND FICTIONALIZED SELVES

Memoirs’ Characters: Writer, Narrator, Protagonist Peggy Whitman Prenshaw

Faulkner and Autobiography in Fiction Thomas L. McHaney

‘A Someone Somewhere’: Locating Richard Ford’s Southern Self in his Fiction and Non-Fiction Gérald Préher

Self-Fashioning and Philippe Labro’s ‘Southern Memoir’ The Foreign Student Nahem Yousaf

PART 4 TRANSGRESSORS AND PERFORMERS OF SELF

Appalachian Women’s Autobiographies from the Margins: Crossing the Boundaries of the Genre Carmen Rueda-Ramos

‘Pariahs for Flattering Reasons’: Confessions of Failed Southern Ladies on the Black Help Susana Jiménez Placer

‘A Tarnished Lady?’: Tallulah Bankhead’s Southern Performance in Hollywood Beata Zawadka

Grief and Humor: Appalachian Writers Using Autobiography to Find a Way Home Sandra L. Ballard

PART 5 SITES FOR SELF-EXPLORATION:TRAVEL AND ILLNESS NARRATIVES

The Self Elsewhere: Alice Walker’s Identity in the Wider World Jesús Varela-Zapata

Reflecting on the Region, Revisioning the Self: John Gould Fletcher’s Song of His Life and Its Transatlantic Context Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

The Physicality of Reminiscence: The Stimuli of the South in Bobbie Ann Mason’s Clear Springs: A Memoir Candela Delgado Marín

Coming to the End: The Perception of Mortality in the Autobiographical Writings of Reynolds Price and Tim McLaurin Marcel Arbeit

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