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Little Feet, Big Heart

Maxine Hong Kingston’s struggle with identity can be traced explicitly to her childhood in White Tiger.  In the first paragraph of this chapter, she writes innocently that “perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet … Continue reading

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Black-Out Conversion

In Smith and Watson’s Reading Autobiography, in their chapter about autobiographical acts, I see them frame autobiography by looking at the who, what, where, when, how and why of their creation. The who is the person to which the story … Continue reading

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Why Moms are Always Right, a Character Sketch.

I woke up on the floor of the Terrace Theater. When everything finally came into focus, I was staring straight into a guy’s face. He couldn’t have been older than 25 years old, and the combination of his deer-in-headlight expression … Continue reading

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Tell Them What They Want to Hear

Smith and Watson offer us a wealth of information hidden beneath their jargon and tie-it-up-and-torture-out-a-meaning approach to autobiography. Its quite a process to get through some of the denser material covered in “Reading Autobiography” but the result is wroth it. … Continue reading

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