...This chapter presents excerpts from a memoir written by William W. Brown, a former slave. His early life was shaped by two constants: the instability of his personal life and his determination to escape. And the autobiography, as with dozens of other memoirs of former slaves published...

... these imaginative transmutations, Brainard used the comic strip form’s serial structure to depict sexuality as a seemingly endless array of unpredictable installments. Alternatively, in David Wojnarowicz’s graphic memoir, 7 Miles a Second (1993), the artist and his collaborators, James Romberger...

...This chapter is a prison memoir detailing the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick, chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, to avenge the deaths of seven steel workers killed by Frick's detectives during the great Homestead Strike. The culprit, Alexander Berkman, was a prominent member...

...Chapter 2 focuses on the figure of the child as soldier. Reading expansively across memoirs and novels about war, I show how the figure of the child shuttles between sentimental and gothic modes, the former universalizing, the latter calling attention to history, often repeating debates about...

... prisoners memoir Aimee Phan family women debt This chapter explores the work of memory for Vietnamese diasporic subjects and how they construct their own archives of memory in the face of historical amnesia, especially by broader American and French society, and how postwar trauma like the kind South...

..."Funeral Rites" explores, via memoir, the aftermath of a partner's death at a time (2002) and in a place where there were no rights to queer marriage and little recognition of the validity of queer relationships. The short essay explores the complications of queer grief, identity, and the search...

...This chapter explores three of the most influential parental memoirs of adoption from the former Soviet Union—Margaret L. Schwartz’s The Pumpkin Patch (2005), Theresa Reid’s Two Little Girls (2007), and Brooks Hansen’s The Brotherhood of Joseph...

... Christianity patriarchal structures African American fathers Civil War Confederacy letters memoir We were standing in an open field, under the shot and shell of these batteries, for half an hour, before we moved forward, and a good many soldiers were killed all around me. One poor fellow had his head...