Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	John Joseph Mathews's Talking to the Moon: Literary and Osage Contexts	1
	Autobiography after Emancipation: The Example of Elizabeth Keckley	32
	The Children Ceased to Hear My Name: Recovering the Self in The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois	64
	George Washington Cable's "My Politics": Context and Revision of a Southern Memoir	94
	At Home in the Land of Columbus: Americanization in European-American Immigrant Autobiography	114
	My House Is Not Your House: Jerre Mangione and Italian-American Autobiography	139
	The Ghetto and Beyond: First-Generation American-Jewish Autobiography and Cultural History	178
	Protest and Accommodation, Self-Satire and Self-Effacement, in Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter	207
	Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese-American Autobiographical Controversy	248
	Autobiography and Ethnic Politics: Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory	280
	The School of Caliban: Pan-American Autobiography	297
	Contributors	327
	Index	331