Sidonie Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidonie Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidonie |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Afterlives of Those Who Write Themselves. Rethinking Autobiographical Archives
As those who write themselves, life narrators are readers, interpreters, and curators of the archival material, both intimate and impersonal, accrued during their lifetimes. These materials form an archival pre-life that is extended and complemented by posthumous remediations of their narrated lives. Personal archives may include writing in journals and diaries, digital exchanges on social media and blogs, documents, and images in photographs and…
Autobiographical Inscription and the Identity Assemblage
Autobiographical texts themselves might be understood as assemblages of diverse identity ascriptions, claims, and relationships. Particular acts might be understood as nodes in a larger network of aesthetic, social, material, affective, and political currents, all intersecting one another, all productive of, and disruptive of, identities and their social meanings. In this chapter, the author writes essay that there are productive ways of approach…
What about False Witnessing?
Human rights testimonies, shaped and packaged into narratives of witness, educate and bind readers to the degree that they convince them of two things: that the story is the "real" story of a "real" survivor. That is, narrative joined to an embodied person; and that the reading experience constitutes a cross-cultural encounter positioning readers as ethical subjects within the global imaginary of human rights advocacy. Witness narratives communic…
Archiwa zapisów życia: Czym i gdzie są
Smith and Watson propose eight microstudies exploring the challenges of researching life writing. Their sources are familiar to Polish readers – Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipović, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, the writings of Mary Antin or Charlotte Salomon’s autobiographical series of paintings. The authenticity of those works is examined in terms of the different perspectives of the artist, autocreation, human rights or the editing process, which give…
Remembering James Olney (1933-2015)
Remembering James Olney (1933–2015) John Eakin (bio), Cynthia Huff (bio), Sidonie Smith (bio), and Julia Watson (bio) james olney and the study of autobiography - john eakin Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté. —Charles Baudelaire James Olney’s death last winter set me to thinking about the past—thirty, thirty-five, forty years ago—back to a time before the creation of all the resources for the study of autobiography that we…
Behind the Pictures: An Interview with Joanne Leonard
In this edited interview, feminist visual artist Joanne Leonard contemplates her works of art as interruptions of linear chronology that reform temporality to reflect more accurately the intersection of memories. The interview, conducted by Sidonie Smith, further explores the duality and relationality present in Leonard's photography, photo collages, and visual-verbal works, as well as in her autobiographical book Being in Pictures: An Intimate P…
Reading the Posthuman Backwards: Mary Rowlandson's Doubled Witnessing
Taking its cue from theorists who note the persistence of a humanist imaginary in popular iterations of posthumanism, this essay queries how the posthuman subject projected by theory might "speak" the autobiographical, and troubles the notion of the posthuman as an epochal designation by turning back to consider what a posthuman lens might reveal about the earliest of colonial American autobiographical narratives, Mary Rowlandson's 1682 captivity…
Witness or False Witness: Metrics of Authenticity, Collective I-Formations, and the Ethic of Verification in First-Person Testimony
One possible response to allegations of hoaxing that surround the contemporary traffic in witness narratives is to re-theorize issues central to testimonial narration. Rather than arguing that the truth or falsity of witness narratives can be definitively determined, we complicate the transparency of the first-person narrator in testimony and the claim of authenticity that has become the guarantor of that subject position. To do so, we explore ho…
Autobiographical Discourse in the Theaters of Politics
During the course of the 2008 presidential election in the United States, candidates, voters, journalists, pundits, and campaign operatives engaged directly and indirectly in an extended national debate about auto/biographical storytelling, its generic forms, its grounds of authenticity, its routes of circulation, and its afterlives in various media. In the wake of that election, scholars have been probing the conjunctions of personal discourse a…
Narrating the Right to Sexual Well-being and the Global Management of Misery: Maria Rosa Henson's Comfort Woman and Charlene Smith's Proud of Me
Within the human rights regime, violations are managed through a juridical model that divides people into victims (based on identity categories) and perpetrators, thereby focusing on individuals rather than on systems of inequalities. Rights campaigns depend upon victim stories to build a case, gain public attention, bring perpetrators to account, and raise money for rights activism. The recent turn to the right to "health," however, foregrounds …
Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition
Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. These two contemporary domains, personal narrative and human rights, literature and
Response to Section II: Dis-sexuality Sexuality and Dis-Sexuality in the International Regime of Human Rights
Response to Section II:Dis-sexuality Sexuality and Dis-Sexuality in the International Regime of Human Rights Sidonie Smith (bio) I come to the three essays in this section on Sexuality/Dis-Sexuality with my own particular question: How does sexuality and dis-sexuality play in the contemporary regime of human rights with regard to the identities and differences that regime sets in motion? Having just coauthored (with Kay Schaffer) a book on human …
Venues of Storytelling: The circulation of testimony in human rights campaigns
Personal storytelling has become critical in contemporary human rights campaigns. Personal stories are narrated to remember a past that has been forgotten; to begin a healing process between tellers and listeners; to bring rights violations to a global audience; to put a human face on suffering; to mobilise and fund activism. Global audiences gain access to the suffering and struggles of people elsewhere through published life narratives, narrati…
Conjunctions: Life Narratives in the Field of Human Rights
In the fifty years during which human rights have gained an international currency, personal narratives have become a potent vehicle for advancing human rights claims. This article considers the importance of storytelling within an emerging and increasingly fractured human rights discourse as the circulation and reception of stories result in unpredictable readings and outcomes that both make visible and also forestall new rights claimants, subje…
Land of the free'? Circulating human rights and narrated lives in the United States
In the 50 years during which human rights has gained an international currency, personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims. This is particularly true in the United States where personal narratives attesting to human rights violations frequently gain wide exposure through mass publication and publicity, media circulation, and global information flows. This article explores the circulation of h…
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition
With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. This book presents a critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. It aims to help with the reading and interpreting of autobiographical texts and presents various methods for this across the humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts. This edition lays out a sophisticated, theoretical approach to life writing and the…
Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance
Modern and contemporary women's artistic production of autobiography frequently occurs at the interfaces of image and text. The many permutations of words and images in all their modes of production--photograph, pose, invocation, written narrative, sculpture, dance, diatribe--create countless possibilities of expression, and this volume charts some of the ways in which women artists are seizing these possibilities.Editors Sidonie Smith and Julia …
Reading autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
The Rumpled Bed of Autobiography: Extravagant Lives, Extravagant Questions
Preface Our plenary presentation was a slide-lecture drawn from the introduction to our forthcoming edited collection, Interfaces: Women's Visual and Performance Autobiography. We began the Interfaces project several years ago, in response to the remarkable outpouring of self-portraiture in contemporary painting, photography, artists' books, and mixed visual forms such as installations, collage, and quilting that marked the last two decades of au…
Response to Philip Morrissey
Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader
Indigenous Australian Voices presents artwork, prose, and poetry of thirty-six contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and artists from the offshore islands, the Northern Territory, and all six states of Australia. It brings together, for the first time, little-known writings by men and women who capture the diversity of their lifestyles and perspectives in a far more compelling way than better-known accounts of anthropologists…
Women, autobiography, theory: A Reader
The Joint Doctoral Program at the University of Michigan
Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century
Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance
(1995). Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 17-33
Conjunctions: Life Narratives in the Field of Human Rights
In the fifty years during which human rights have gained an international currency, personal narratives have become a potent vehicle for advancing human rights claims. This article considers the importance of storytelling within an emerging and increasingly fractured human rights discourse as the circulation and reception of stories result in unpredictable readings and outcomes that both make visible and also forestall new rights claimants, subje…
Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance
(1995). Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 17-33
Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition
Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. These two contemporary domains, personal narrative and human rights, literature and
The Rumpled Bed of Autobiography: Extravagant Lives, Extravagant Questions
Preface Our plenary presentation was a slide-lecture drawn from the introduction to our forthcoming edited collection, Interfaces: Women's Visual and Performance Autobiography. We began the Interfaces project several years ago, in response to the remarkable outpouring of self-portraiture in contemporary painting, photography, artists' books, and mixed visual forms such as installations, collage, and quilting that marked the last two decades of au…
Who's Talking/Who's Talking Back? The Subject of Personal Narrative Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography . Timothy Dow Adams Jessie Bernard: The Making of a Feminist . Robert C. Bannister Rev…
Witness or False Witness: Metrics of Authenticity, Collective I-Formations, and the Ethic of Verification in First-Person Testimony
One possible response to allegations of hoaxing that surround the contemporary traffic in witness narratives is to re-theorize issues central to testimonial narration. Rather than arguing that the truth or falsity of witness narratives can be definitively determined, we complicate the transparency of the first-person narrator in testimony and the claim of authenticity that has become the guarantor of that subject position. To do so, we explore ho…
Autobiographical Discourse in the Theaters of Politics
During the course of the 2008 presidential election in the United States, candidates, voters, journalists, pundits, and campaign operatives engaged directly and indirectly in an extended national debate about auto/biographical storytelling, its generic forms, its grounds of authenticity, its routes of circulation, and its afterlives in various media. In the wake of that election, scholars have been probing the conjunctions of personal discourse a…
Venues of Storytelling: The circulation of testimony in human rights campaigns
Personal storytelling has become critical in contemporary human rights campaigns. Personal stories are narrated to remember a past that has been forgotten; to begin a healing process between tellers and listeners; to bring rights violations to a global audience; to put a human face on suffering; to mobilise and fund activism. Global audiences gain access to the suffering and struggles of people elsewhere through published life narratives, narrati…
The Impact of Critical Theory on the Study of Autobiography: Marginality, Gender, and Autobiographical Practice
(1987). The Impact of Critical Theory on the Study of Autobiography: Marginality, Gender, and Autobiographical Practice. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1-12
Narrating the Right to Sexual Well-being and the Global Management of Misery: Maria Rosa Henson's Comfort Woman and Charlene Smith's Proud of Me
Within the human rights regime, violations are managed through a juridical model that divides people into victims (based on identity categories) and perpetrators, thereby focusing on individuals rather than on systems of inequalities. Rights campaigns depend upon victim stories to build a case, gain public attention, bring perpetrators to account, and raise money for rights activism. The recent turn to the right to "health," however, foregrounds …
The [Female] Subject in Critical Venues: Poetics, Politics, Autobiographical Practices
(1991). The [Female] Subject in Critical Venues: Poetics, Politics, Autobiographical Practices. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 6, Illness, Disability, and Lifewriting, pp. 109-130
Legal Education and Universities
Where I'm Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography
Journal Article Where I'm Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography. By Sidonie Smith. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1974. xi + 194 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $9.95.) Get access Jimmie L. Franklin Jimmie L. Franklin Eastern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September 1975, Pages 446–447, https://doi.org/…
Where I'm Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography
A poetics of women's autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation
The Impact of Critical Theory on the Study of Autobiography: Marginality, Gender, and Autobiographical Practice
(1987). The Impact of Critical Theory on the Study of Autobiography: Marginality, Gender, and Autobiographical Practice. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1-12
Self, Subject, and Resistance: Marginalities and Twentieth-Century Autobiographical Practice
Sidonie Smith, Self, Subject, and Resistance: Marginalities and Twentieth-Century Autobiographical Practice, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 9, No. 1, Women Writing Autobiography (Spring, 1990), pp. 11-24
Taking the "Woman" out of Women's Autobiography: The Perils and Potentials of Theorizing Female Subjectivities
The [Female] Subject in Critical Venues: Poetics, Politics, Autobiographical Practices
(1991). The [Female] Subject in Critical Venues: Poetics, Politics, Autobiographical Practices. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 6, Illness, Disability, and Lifewriting, pp. 109-130
De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography
A diverse and widely inclusive collection of essays that frames the frontier of critical investigation - colonial and postcolonial autobiography of the embodied subject
Subjectivity, identity, and the body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century
Who's Talking/Who's Talking Back? The Subject of Personal Narrative Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography . Timothy Dow Adams Jessie Bernard: The Making of a Feminist . Robert C. Bannister Rev…
Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century
Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance
(1995). Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 17-33
Women, autobiography, theory: A Reader
The Joint Doctoral Program at the University of Michigan
Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader
Indigenous Australian Voices presents artwork, prose, and poetry of thirty-six contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and artists from the offshore islands, the Northern Territory, and all six states of Australia. It brings together, for the first time, little-known writings by men and women who capture the diversity of their lifestyles and perspectives in a far more compelling way than better-known accounts of anthropologists…
Response to Philip Morrissey
Reading autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
The Rumpled Bed of Autobiography: Extravagant Lives, Extravagant Questions
Preface Our plenary presentation was a slide-lecture drawn from the introduction to our forthcoming edited collection, Interfaces: Women's Visual and Performance Autobiography. We began the Interfaces project several years ago, in response to the remarkable outpouring of self-portraiture in contemporary painting, photography, artists' books, and mixed visual forms such as installations, collage, and quilting that marked the last two decades of au…
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition
With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. This book presents a critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. It aims to help with the reading and interpreting of autobiographical texts and presents various methods for this across the humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts. This edition lays out a sophisticated, theoretical approach to life writing and the…
Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance
Modern and contemporary women's artistic production of autobiography frequently occurs at the interfaces of image and text. The many permutations of words and images in all their modes of production--photograph, pose, invocation, written narrative, sculpture, dance, diatribe--create countless possibilities of expression, and this volume charts some of the ways in which women artists are seizing these possibilities.Editors Sidonie Smith and Julia …
Land of the free'? Circulating human rights and narrated lives in the United States
In the 50 years during which human rights has gained an international currency, personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims. This is particularly true in the United States where personal narratives attesting to human rights violations frequently gain wide exposure through mass publication and publicity, media circulation, and global information flows. This article explores the circulation of h…
Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition
Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. These two contemporary domains, personal narrative and human rights, literature and
Response to Section II: Dis-sexuality Sexuality and Dis-Sexuality in the International Regime of Human Rights
Response to Section II:Dis-sexuality Sexuality and Dis-Sexuality in the International Regime of Human Rights Sidonie Smith (bio) I come to the three essays in this section on Sexuality/Dis-Sexuality with my own particular question: How does sexuality and dis-sexuality play in the contemporary regime of human rights with regard to the identities and differences that regime sets in motion? Having just coauthored (with Kay Schaffer) a book on human …
Venues of Storytelling: The circulation of testimony in human rights campaigns
Personal storytelling has become critical in contemporary human rights campaigns. Personal stories are narrated to remember a past that has been forgotten; to begin a healing process between tellers and listeners; to bring rights violations to a global audience; to put a human face on suffering; to mobilise and fund activism. Global audiences gain access to the suffering and struggles of people elsewhere through published life narratives, narrati…
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