BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This paper examines the emancipatory potential of education in dismantling caste-based oppression through a subaltern reading of Yendluri Sudhakar’s poem “An Autobiography.” It explores the historical evolution of caste stratification in India and foregrounds the lived realities of Dalit communities whose socio-economic and cultural marginalization has persisted despite constitutional guarantees of equality. While s…

Reference · Wikidata

series of triennial Dutch literary prizes for a literary-historical biography or an autobiography, from 1985 awarded alternately to a Dutch and a Flemish author

Book · DOAB

Renowned human rights activist Michael “Mike” Wilson has borne witness to the profound human costs of poverty, racism, border policing, and the legacies of colonialism. From a childhood in the mining town of Ajo, Arizona, Wilson’s life journey led him to US military service in Central America, seminary education, and religious and human rights activism against the abuses of US immigration policies. With increased mi…

Full text · Open Library

The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion ov…

Image · DPLA

Microfilm of typescript and handwritten biographies and autobiographies, primarily related to the Jarvis family. Included are a biography of Heber Jarvis (1860-1953) by his daughter Pearl Jarvis Farr written in 1943 (and which also includes biographical notes on her grandparents George Jarvis and Ann Prior Jarvis), a biography of Janet Mauretta Johnson Smith (1848-1933) by Farr, a biography of Joel H. Johnson (1850-…