a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Volume 30, Issue 1 (2015)

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Auto|Biography across the Americas

Foreword

30 Years (and Counting)
Ricia Chansky & Emily Hipchen
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Introduction

Introduction
Moving beyond Boundaries
Ricia Anne Chansky
Pages: 3-15
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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The Process

Article
Finding Enslaved Children's Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative
Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Pages: 17-29
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Essays

Article
On Racial Silence and Salience: Narrating “African Things” in Puerto Rican Oral History
Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas
Pages: 31-52
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Roots and Routes: The Biographical Meshwork of Saint Josephine Bakhita
Maria Suely Kofes
Pages: 53-66
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Article
Tactical Lines in Three Black Women's Visual Portraits, 1773–1849
Joycelyn K. Moody
Pages: 67-98
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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(Un)Translatability and the Autobiographical Subject in Maryse Condé's La vie sans fards
Bella Brodzki
Pages: 99-105
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Exploring Narratives of Contested Gender Identities in Jamaican Dancehall
Donna P. Hope
Pages: 107-129
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Patti Smith Kicks In the Walls of Memoir: Relational Lives and “the Right Voice” in Just Kids
Julia Watson
Pages: 131-151
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Public Memory and Public Mourning in Contemporary Colombia
Gabriel Jaime Murillo Arango
Pages: 153-166
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Free Access
Article
(Auto)Biography in Pre-Service Teacher Training: Rural Education in Bahia, Brazil
Elizeu Clementino de Souza
Pages: 167-178
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Rev. of Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity, edited by MAURICE O. WALLACE & SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH
Duke University Press, 2012 400 pp., $27.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-5085-9
Jessie Morgan-Owens
Pages: 179-182
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Book Review
Rev. of Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market, by JULIE RAK
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013 258 pp., $29.99 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-5545-8939-5
Emma Maguire
Pages: 182-185
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Miscellany

Notes on Contributors
Pages: 187-189
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Announcements

The Timothy Dow Adams Award
Page: 191
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Calls for Papers

Announcement
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
Pages: 195-196
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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Announcement
Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narrative
Pages: 197-198
Published online: 05 Aug 2015
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