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Autobiography

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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Autobiography Summary
6,034 words, approx. 20 pages
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Autobiography is a form of religious literature with an ancient lineage in the Christian, Islamic, and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. It became an increasingly common and significant form of discourse in almost every religious tradition...
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Autobiography Information
715 words, approx. 2 pages
An autobiography, from the Greek autos, 'self', bios, 'life' and graphein, 'write', is a biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled "as told to" or "with"). The term was first used by the poet Robert...


News and Journals
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Bhutto autobiography details threats
2/3/2008: 253 words, approx. 1 pages
In an autobiography being published after her assassination, Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she was warned that four suicide bomber squads would try to kill her, one led by Osama bin Laden's 16-year-old son.The former Pakistan prime minister — who was killed in Rawalpindi...
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Justice Thomas writes autobiography
9/29/2007: 700 words, approx. 2 pages
Breaking his 16-year public silence on his bitter confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says Anita Hill was a mediocre employee who was used by political opponents to make claims she had been sexually harassed.Thomas writes about Hill, his former employee in two government...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
16,486 words, approx. 55 pages
In the essay that follows, Georgi-Findlay examines the American frontier experience from the perspective of a Native American woman—Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins—using her Life among the Piutes to discuss the role of gender in such areas as assimilation, Native American/white relations, literary style, and sexual and political power.
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A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
11,953 words, approx. 40 pages
In the essay that follows, Ruoff contends that Native American autobiographies became more intensely focused on Native American-white political relations, and more self-reflectively literary, over the course of the nineteenth century.
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Critical Essay by Robert Folkenflik
10,878 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Folkenflik studies the treatment of alterity and the self in autobiographical narratives from St. Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre, with primary reference to several Victorian autobiographers.
 


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