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This article builds upon African American literary theorist Margo Perkins's conception of political autobiography from her award-winning book Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties , and the work of critical prison studies scholars Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodríguez. It reads Susan Burton's 2017 narrative, Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women , as reflecting an untheorized subgenre of African American confinement literature: the post-Black Power neo-abolitionist memoir. In the memoir, Burton alludes to slavery and anti-slavery activism to contextualize historically the post-Black Power-era prison-industrial complex and galvanize opposition to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article outlines a crip archival analysis of Karen Tei Yamashita's creative family memoir Letters to Memory (2017) and the separate Yamashita Family Archives; the analysis revolves around the concept of disorder. The book and digital archives move the daily lived experience of incarceration out of chronological order, encouraging new connections across a massive collection of materials: letters, photographs, federal surveillance documents, paintings, sermons, and other ephemera surrounding World War II Japanese American incarceration. Their respective acts of assembling and retelling destabilize the dominant narrative of a resolved family or national trauma to reflect divergent embodied experiences of distress and disability effected by racial debilitation. Offering concentric analysis of textual and archival reordering via Asian American studies, disability studies, and digital humanities, this article adds alternative dimensions to the ongoing legacy of incarceration by inviting readers to create new constellations of meaning through examining temporal and embodied disorder. Reading the physical book and digital archives together also acts as a model for how literary studies scholars might complicate our attention to embodiment beyond narrative analysis, by thinking about disability and madness in the design and structure of texts and digital media. Through cripping the archive, the author calls for a reconceptualization of mad and disabled bodyminds as not only content to be examined, but also users and creators whose disorder animates alternative ways of knowing personal and state violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The poem "Prose Cities" by Katie Farris is presented. First Line: One of the most exciting parts of being a writer during this time is the way that increasing- Last Line: space. Open the doors.

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The article focuses on memoir and family secrets. It mentions writing a memoir about surrendering a child to adoption, more than one family member suggested that the story would better written as a novel; and also mentions secret is a madwoman, mad, they say, because of a family lineage of mental illness, mad because of her dark, suspect race, mad because of her passionate Jamaican blood brought to live in the wild.

The essay discusses her experience of reading author Carole Maso's memoir "The Room Lit by Roses" as a writer. She discusses her response to reading Maso's book as a young women and later while dealing with infertility and miscarriage issues and struggling to become a single mother, and she explores Maso's writing about her experience of pregnancy at the age of 42.

Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace takes the form of a fictive memoir, in which the protagonist, based on the historical Grace Marks, who was tried and convicted of murder at age sixteen, gives an account of her life to a doctor who could arrange her release from prison. Through the strategic interplay of silence and revelation, purposeful invocation of her girlishness, and re-evaluation of notions of guilt, innocence, and identity, Grace positions herself as an agent capable of radical social critique rather than as a victim or a passive object of rescue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay focusing on literature about British aerial warfare during World War I is presented. It describes the emergence of World War I memoirs about the British Royal Flying Corps, the ways in which the memoirs promote air warfare as heroic and the most popular memoirs about World War I aerial warfare, including those written by Billy Bishop, James McCudden and Cecil Lewis.

An excerpt from the book "Under the Table" is presented.

A personal essay is presented which explores the aftermath of a stroke suffered by the author's father. The author discusses the changes observed in his personality from his personality during her childhood. The author also describes a climb in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with her dogs. The essay won first place in the Michael Steinberg Essay Prize competition.

An essay that examines the ways that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has defended herself against institutional and personal sexism and explores how individuals seek to tell their own stories before others accomplish the task for them is presented. It discusses Clinton's use of memoir and autobiography to promote herself as ambitious, determined and focused and discusses how biographers have depicted these same traits as Clinton's faults.

Presents the memoir essay "The Eighth Man," by Afaa Michael Weaver.