Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada

<p>The <em>Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography</em> in <em>Canada </em>explores the exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to give teachers and students the tools they need to study both canonical and lesser-known works. The volume introduces important texts and contexts for interpreting life narratives, demonstrates the conceptual tools necessary to understand what life narratives are and how they work, and offers an historical overview of key moments in Canadian auto/biography. Not sure what life writing in Canada is, or how to study it? This critical introduction covers the tools and approaches you require in order to undertake your own interpretation of life writing texts. You will encounter nonfictional writing about individual lives and experiences—including biography, autobiography, letters, diaries, comics, poetry, plays, and memoirs. The volume includes case studies to provide examples of how to study and research life narratives and toolkits to help you apply what you learn. The <em>Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada</em> provides instructors and students with the contexts and the critical tools to discover the power of life writing, and the skills to study any kind of nonfiction, from Canada and around the world.</p> <p><b><i>PART I: WHAT IS AUTO/BIOGRAPHY?</i></b> </p><p><b>Beginnings: Auto/biography, Biography, and Life Writing</b></p><p><b>Auto/biography</b></p><p><b>Studying Auto/Biography: Approaches, Conventions, and Autobiographical Truth</b></p><p><b>Auto/biographical Genres and Forms</b></p><p><b><i>PART II: AUTO/BIOGRAPHY IN CANADA</i></b></p><p><b>Reading the Nation</b></p><p><b>Exploration, Travel, and Settlement: Settler-Colonial and Indigenous Accounts</b></p><p><b>Modern Canada Between WWI and WWII</b></p><p><b>Indigenous Life Writing Since 1967</b></p><p><b>Case Study: Maria Campbell, Halfbreed</b></p><p><b>Race, Nation, and the Limits of Imagined Community</b></p><p><b>Case Study, Lorena Gale Je me souviens: Memories of an Expatriate Anglophone Montréalaise Québécoise exiled in Canada. Talonbooks, 2001</b></p><p><b><i>PART III: AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL STORIES</i></b></p><p><b>Telling and Reading Auto/biographical Stories</b></p><p><b>Experimental and Hybrid Forms</b></p><p><b>Case Study: Fred Wah, Diamond Grill</b></p><p><b>Auto/biographical Comics in Canada</b></p><p><b>Testimony and Witnessing</b></p><p><b>Disability and Illness Life Writing</b></p><p><b>Case Study: Dorothy Ellen Palmer, Falling For Myself (2019)</b></p><p><b>Diasporic Lives, Diasporic Stories</b></p><p><b>Asian Canadian Life Writing (Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier University)</b></p><p><b>Case Study: Jenny Heijun Wills, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related (Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier University)</b></p><p><b>Queer Life Writing in Canada: 2SLGBTQ+ Lives and Stories</b></p><p><b>Biography and Writers’ Lives</b></p><p><b>Case Study: Terry Fox and Biography</b></p><p><b><i>PART IV: SITES OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY</i></b></p><p><b>Archives</b></p><p><b>Case Study: The Rural Diary Archive</b></p><p><b>Paratexts</b></p><p><b>Case Study: Paratexts I - Getting Started with Paratext</b></p><p><b>Case Study: Paratexts II – Peritextual Analysis</b></p><p><b>Interviews</b></p><p><b>Case Study: Listening to Many Voices (A Conversation Between Julie Rak and Karina Vernon)</b></p><p><b><i>PART V: TOOLKITS FOR STUDYING AUTO/BIOGRAPHY</i></b></p><p><b>TOOLKIT 1: Studying Auto/Biography</b></p><p><b>TOOLKIT 2: Studying Auto/Biographical Comics</b></p><p><b>TOOLKIT 3: Archives and Archival Research</b></p><p><b>TOOLKIT 4: Studying Paratexts</b></p><p><b>TOOLKIT 5: Studying Interviews</b></p>