附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Individual stories and cultural narratives: autobiography in modern America -- History and a final self: W.E.B. Du Bois and Henry Adams -- Soul and the self: Black Elk and Thomas Merton -- Childhood of the artist: Louis Sullivan and Richard Wright -- Cato's mirror: the face of violence in the autobiographies of Alexander Berkman and Conrad Aiken -- Becoming a woman in male America: Margaret Mead and Anaïs Nin -- Two recreate one: the act of collaboration in recent Black autobiography -- Ossie Guffy, Nate Shaw, Malcolm X -- Factual fictions: experiments in autobiography by Norman Mailer, Frank Conroy, Lillian Hellman.
