Tag Archives: Experience

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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Shared Experience

Smith and Watson’s ideas of Experience are quite influential in relation to Cabeza de Vaca’s narrative. It is important to consider how Cabeza de Vaca’s account relies heavily on personal experience in the exploration of foreign worlds. In class we … 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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The Mysterious “Self”: Autobiographical Subjectivity

Personally, I resist the idea that Smith and Watson continually make in their book Reading Autobiography, suggesting that a “self” is not unique, but rests on the basis of pre-determined languages and politics, influences, etc. While it is true that … Continue reading

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