Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts

Gives an anaylsis of the social themes and cultural perspectives of modern American autobiographies

Preface	p. xiii
Individual Stories and Cultural Narratives Autobiography in Modern America	p. 1
History and a Final Self W. E. B. Du Bois and Henry Adams	p. 28
The Soul and the Self Black Elk and Thomas Merton	p. 59
The Childhood of the Artist Louis Sullivan and Richard Wright	p. 92
Cato's Mirror: the Face of Violence in The Autobiographies of Alexander Berkman And Conrad Aiken	p. 149
Becoming a Woman in Male America Margaret Mead and Anaïs Nin	p. 190
Two Recreate One: the Act Of Collaboration in Recent Black Autobiography--Ossie Guffy, Nate Shaw Malcolm X	p. 231
Factual Fictions: Experiments In Autobiography by Norman Mailer Frank Conroy, Lillian Hellman	p. 265
Notes	p. 325
Index	p. 343
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