The Ethics Of Working Class Autobiography
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The Ethics Of Working Class Autobiography
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Author : Elizabeth Bidinger
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2006-07-19
The Ethics Of Working Class Autobiography written by Elizabeth Bidinger and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
The ethical dimension of autobiography is emerging as an important area of study. Scholars now recognize that an autobiography must be read with an element of caution since it represents not so much the literal truth as the author's perception of people and events, a perspective sometimes unflattering to those portrayed. 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 ways in which each author confronts his or her past and how the authors represent their working-class family members. Texts discussed are Growing Up by Russell Baker (1982), Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman (1984), A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule (1995) and Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason (1999). Each work recounts the author's struggle with a particular societal element such as gender, race, class division or region. While Baker's memoir provides an example of positive, balanced characterizations of working-class relatives, the texts by Wideman, Nesaule and Mason illustrate the ethical pitfalls in portraying less powerful family members in one's life story. An overview of trends in working-class autobiography and a brief survey regarding the critical reception of each work are included.
Factory Lives
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Author : James R. Simmons, Jr
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2007-04-10
Factory Lives written by James R. Simmons, Jr and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others.
A Long Way From Home Class Identity And Ethics In Autobiography
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Author : Elizabeth Ann Bidinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Long Way From Home Class Identity And Ethics In Autobiography written by Elizabeth Ann Bidinger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Electronic dissertations categories.
This dissertation analyzes the autobiographies of writers who spent much or all of their youth in working-class circumstances, and who moved into the upper-middle class in their adulthood. The study examines how these autobiographers, in their present incarnations as upper-middle-class writers, confront their working-class pasts and the people in it. Specifically, my analysis investigates how the authors' identity construction in the texts relates to the authors' portrayals of family members and significant others. Further, the dissertation focuses on autobiography as an ethical act, seeking to illuminate ways in which the authors appropriate, exploit, â€primitivize,†patronize, or in some other manner diminish the dignity of their working-class family members in their texts. Little attention has been given to the ethical aspects of autobiography, and it has largely focused on the matter of privacy. This dissertation differs in focus, analyzing the ethical nature of the representations of proximate others—particularly those of the working-class—by autobiographers who are trying to reconcile their own class-identity conflicts. I adopt the approach modeled by ethical critic Wayne Booth, applying such questions as (to quote Booth) â€Is this â€poem’ morally, politically, or philosophically sound? and, Is it likely to work for good or ill in those who read it?†I also appraise the â€truth-value†of the narratives. Chapter 1 analyzes Russell Baker's Growing Up as an example of a positive model of ethical working-class autobiography, but contends that it is Baker's closer approximation to the dominant culture that simplifies his task of delineating an identity metamorphosis. The following three chapters identify the ethical problems in the texts by Wideman, Agate Nesaule, and Bobbie Ann Mason and demonstrate how these problems largely arise from the authors' attempts to negotiate their class and cultural duality. Chapter 2 argues that Wideman exemplifies an autobiographer's grappling with issues of race. Chapter 3 examines Nesaule's difficulty with writing autobiography about class differences. Chapter 4 emphasizes Mason's problematic construction of a regional identity.
The Autobiography Of The Working Class
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Author : John Burnett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Autobiography Of The Working Class written by John Burnett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Business & Economics categories.
Bread Knowledge And Freedom
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Author : David Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-29
Bread Knowledge And Freedom written by David Vincent and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published in 1981, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom is a study of 142 working class autobiographies all of which cover some part of the period between 1790 and 1850. It is a full-scale examination of a form of source material that is significantly extensive. The book illustrates many aspects of ordinary working-class family life as well as the working-class pursuit of knowledge and literacy and the attempts of the middle-class educators to impose their notion of ‘useful knowledge.’ Dr. Vincent concludes with an assessment of the contribution of autobiography to nineteenth century working class history. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology and literature.
Member Of The Working Class
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Author : Milton Wolff
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005
Member Of The Working Class written by Milton Wolff and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The autobiography Member of the Working Class provides a rich, unusually detailed portrait of the early working-class life of Milton Wolff during the 1920s and 1930s.
The Annals Of Labour
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Author : John Burnett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Annals Of Labour written by John Burnett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Routledge International Handbook Of Working Class Studies
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Author : Michele Fazio
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
Routledge International Handbook Of Working Class Studies written by Michele Fazio and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Social Science categories.
The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1990s in the context of deindustrialization, the rise of the service economy, and economic and cultural globalization. The Handbook brings together scholars, teachers, activists, and organizers from across three continents to focus on the study of working-class peoples, cultures, and politics in all their complexity and diversity. The Handbook maps the current state of the field and presents a visionary agenda for future research by mingling the voices and perspectives of founding and emerging scholars. In addition to a framing Introduction and Conclusion written by the co-editors, the volume is divided into six sections: Methods and principles of research in working-class studies; Class and education; Work and community; Working-class cultures; Representations; and Activism and collective action. Each of the six sections opens with an overview that synthesizes research in the area and briefly summarizes each of the chapters in the section. Throughout the volume, contributors from various disciplines explore the ways in which experiences and understandings of class have shifted rapidly as a result of economic and cultural globalization, social and political changes, and global financial crises of the past two decades. Written in a clear and accessible style, the Handbook is a comprehensive interdisciplinary anthology for this young but maturing field, foregrounding transnational and intersectional perspectives on working-class people and issues and focusing on teaching and activism in addition to scholarly research. It is a valuable resource for activists, as well as working-class studies researchers and teachers across the social sciences, arts, and humanities, and it can also be used as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses.
Writing The Heavenly Frontier
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Author : Denice Turner
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2011-03-10
Writing The Heavenly Frontier written by Denice Turner and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Writing the Heavenly Frontier celebrates the early voices of the air as it examines the sky as a metaphorical and political landscape. While flight histories usually focus on the physical dangers of early aviation, this book introduces the figurative liabilities of ascension. Early pilot-writers not only grappled with an unwieldy machine; they also grappled with poetics that were extremely selective. Tropes that cast Charles Lindbergh as the transcendent hero of the new millennium were the same ones that kept women, black Americans, and indigenous peoples imaginatively tethered to the ground. The most popular flight autobiographies in the United States posited a hero who rose from the mundane to the miraculous; and yet the most startling autobiographies point out the social factors that limited or forbade vertical movement—both literally and figuratively. A survey of pilot writing, the book will appeal to flight enthusiasts and people interested in American autobiography and culture. But it will also appeal strongly to readers interested in the poetics and politics of place.
The Evolution Of Nineteenth Century Working Class Autobiography
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Author : Nancy Ann Hackett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Evolution Of Nineteenth Century Working Class Autobiography written by Nancy Ann Hackett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Autobiography categories.
