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A Study of Authenticity, Disillusionment, and the Digital World

You think you know a person. You think you know your best friend or your brother or your brother’s best friend’s girlfriend. You think you know the person sitting in front of you in your last MWF class. You make … Continue reading

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Adventure Musings

(the autobiographical travelogue of Olivia Rae James) For my 20 percent project, I made an autobiographical travelogue that documents my travels through photos and text. Whenever I travel I take photos and write daily, even if it’s just a snapshot … Continue reading

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The Authority and Authenticity of a Mother: Anne Bradstreet

     In the book Reading Autobiography by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, the authors present the concepts of authority and authenticity as completely interrelated. The author’s authority (granted by the readers and based off of the writer’s own “personal knowledge … Continue reading

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Cabeza de Vaca? Or Cabeza de Mentiras?

When reading the first part of The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca, the concept of Authenticity as found in Smith and Watson’s text, strikes some curiosity in the reader.  This specific aspect of autobiographies focuses on who tells the story … Continue reading

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Cabeza de Vaca’s Conscious Forgetting

As Smith and Watson discuss in the Reading Autobiography, the narratorial strategies which self-writers employ often “attend to the role of remembering–and conscious forgetting–in the act of making meaning out of the past and the present” (30). As de Vaca … Continue reading

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