Tag Archives: Reading Autobiography

Is Benjamin Franklin a Puritan?

No.  But from Puritan autobiography to Benjamin Franklin, there is a noticeable change in what Watson and Smith call the ideological “I”.  In Reading Autdbiography, they define the ideological “I” as the “mobile positionalities of the ‘I’” or in other … Continue reading

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L is for the way you look at me…

In concert with my post from last week, Black-Out Conversion, I want to tackle another topic from Smith & Watson’s Chapter on Autobiographical Acts in their book Reading Autobiography. This time, what I referred to as the “who” interests me … 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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The “You” of Sherman Alexie’s “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me”

Sherman Alexie’s “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me” is indeed the perfect essay for this point in the semester. We could take any of the terminology from the Tool Kit in Smith and Watson’s Reading Autobiography and apply it to Alexie’s … 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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