Brno Studies in English
Volume 36, No. 2, 2010
ISSN 0524-6881
Transgressive (Auto)Biography
as Genre and Method
Edited by
Stephen HARDY, Martina HORÁKOVÁ, Michael M. KAYLOR,
and Kateřina PRAJZNEROVÁ
Contents
Transgressive (Auto)Biography as Genre and Method: An Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rebekah BLOYD: Real Deep Surprises  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Sharon BUTALA: Remember This: Transgression in Memoirs: The Perfection of the Morning
and The Girl in Saskatoon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Donna COATES: “Disturbers of the Peace”: Lynda Van Devanter’s Home Before Morning:
The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam and W. D. Ehrhart’s Passing Time: Memoir
of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Amanda HALE: Imagining a Geometry of the Soul  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Theresa KISHKAN: Quercus virginiana: Degrees of Separation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Raili MARLING: Masculinity in the Margins: Hidden Narratives of the Self
in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Thomas McCONNELL: Writing It Up, Writing It Down  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Richard PICKARD: Reluctance, Protest, and Hybridity: Environmental Engagement
in Memoirs from British Columbia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Randall ROORDA: Footprint: In Lieu of Life Story  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Christopher STUART: Learning to Live Between the Lines: The Survival of Autobiography
as Genre and the Example of Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Aritha van HERK: Running [From] the Family Toward Story  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Book Reviews
Stephen HARDY: Barbara Caine: Biography and History  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Martina HORÁKOVÁ: Bart Moore-Gilbert: Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics
and Self-Representation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195