Biography, vol. 23, no. 4 (Fall 2000)
Editor’s Note, p. iii
ARTICLES
Jane Campion Frames Janet Frame: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young New Zealand Poet, p. 651
Suzette A. Henke
In her 1989 film An Angel At My Table, Jane Campion boldly imbricates into her cinematic adaptation of Janet Frame’s Autobiography scenes and details borrowed from Frame’s novel Faces in the Water. By strategically amalgamating fact with autofiction, Campion expands Frame’s textual self-disclosure and produces a poignant cinematic portrait that reinforces the testimonial impact of her protagonist’s life story.
Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes, p. 670
Juda Bennett
Critics and biographers have represented Langston Hughes as enigmatic, childlike, and asexual. In searching for a productive way into the controversy over the poet’s homosexuality, this essay examines the poet’s repeated use of the theme of racial passing, asking what this literature tells us about the poet, his work, and his sexuality.
Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 1999-2000, p. 694
Phyllis E. Wachter and William Todd Schultz
REVIEWS
Postcolonialism and Autobiography, edited by Alfred Hornung and Ernstpeter Ruhe, p. 756
Reviewed by Elleke Boehmer
Saints’ Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography, by John Kitchen, p. 758
Reviewed by Bruce L. Venarde
Reflections on Biography, by Paula R. Backscheider, p. 762
Reviewed by Ira B. Nadel
Virginia Woolf Icon, by Brenda R. Silver, p. 767
Reviewed by Catherine W. Hollis
The Mourning of John Lennon, by Anthony Elliott, p. 772
Reviewed by Kevin M. Burke
Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland, 1200-1420, by Elizabeth Sutherland, p. 775
Reviewed by Kathleen Ashley
Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography, edited by James L. Conyers, Jr., p. 777
Reviewed by Yvonne Johnson
The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann Fabian, p. 781
Reviewed by James A. Good
REVIEWED ELSEWHERE, p. 787
Excerpts from recent reviews of biographies, autobiographies, and other works of interest
LIFELINES, p. 839
Upcoming events, calls for papers, and news from the field
CONTRIBUTORS, p. 844
INDEX, p. 847
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