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Getting A Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography

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Various encounters helped us transform what was originally just a response to a trendy 1980s phrase--Get A life!--into the pointed yet heterogeneous engagement with everyday practices that we believe this collection represents. Papers submitted for the session on the everyday uses of autobiography at the Modern Language Association's convention in 1992 enabled us to connec ...more
Hardcover , 415 pages
Published December 11th 2004 by Routledge (first published April 1st 1996)
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Sidonie Smith is the Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.
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