Getting a Life

Various encounters helped us transform what was originally just a response to a trendy 1980s phrase--Get A life!--into the pointed yet heterogeneous engagement with everyday practices that we believe this collection represents. Papers submitted for the session on the everyday uses of autobiography at the Modern Language Association's convention in 1992 enabled us to connect with scholars around the country.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Inside the Body in Fiction, Film, and Performance Art	p. 27
"Voicing" Deaf Identity: Through the "I's" and Ears of an Other	p. 47
Medical Identity: My DNA/Myself	p. 63
Morphing Identities: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Write Us	p. 89
Performing Teen Motherhood on Video: Autoethnography as Counterdiscourse	p. 108
The Mediated Talking Cure: Therapeutic Framing of Autobiography in TV Talk Shows	p. 134
Want Ads: Reading the Personals	p. 156
Consensual Autobiography: Narrating "Personal Sexual History" from Boswell's London Journal to AIDS Pamphlet Literature	p. 177
Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?	p. 198
Taking It to a Limit One More Time: Autobiography and Autism	p. 226
"What Kind of Life Have I Got?" Gender in the Life Story of an "Ordinary" Woman	p. 249
Race/Identity/Culture/Kin: Constructions of African American Identity in Transracial Adoption	p. 271
Ordering the Family: Genealogy as Autobiographical Pedigree	p. 297
Twelve-Step Teleology: Narratives of Recovery/Recovery as Narrative	p. 327
Professional Subjects: Prepackaging the Academic C.V.	p. 351
(For)getting a Life: Testimony, Identity, and Power	p. 369
Epilogue: Pieces of My Heart	p. 393
Contributors	p. 395
Index	p. 401
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