Tania Forte's Difference

Tania Forte's Difference

Tania Forte valued writing the fictional, the autobiographical, the scientific. She strove to weave these routes together in shaping her life's journey through anthropology, though this did not yet emerge in her writing. Here I juxtapose three of Tania's texts that limn these routes, foreg...

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Published in:History and memory Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 156 - 164
Main Author: Handelman, Don
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 22-09-2006
Subjects:
American literature
Authors
Color
Criticism and interpretation
Ethnic identity
Foregrounding
Forte, Tania
Group identity
History, Jewish studies
Interiority
Literary criticism
Meditation
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
National identity
Otherness
Scholarly publishing
Single parents
War
Whiteness studies
Works
Writers
Writing
United States
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Summary:Tania Forte valued writing the fictional, the autobiographical, the scientific. She strove to weave these routes together in shaping her life's journey through anthropology, though this did not yet emerge in her writing. Here I juxtapose three of Tania's texts that limn these routes, foregrounding her fascination with the fixed and the flowing, with differences between exteriority and interiority, between selves and others, between private and public.
ISSN:0935-560X
1527-1994
DOI:10.2979/HIS.2006.18.2.156