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SUMMARY:Racialized Bodies and the Narration of Upward Class Mobility
DESCRIPTION:My PhD project examines Anglophone autobiographical accounts of
  moving from the working class to the middle class through education. Focu
 sing on selected autobiographical works from the United States and the Uni
 ted Kingdom published between the 1980s and today\, my dissertation invest
 igates how experiences of upward class mobility are represented across dif
 ferent forms of life writing\, including memoirs\, single-author essay col
 lections\, and multi-author essay anthologies. I use the recent genre conc
 ept of “Autosociobiography” as a heuristic framework for bringing thes
 e formally diverse works into conversation and examining recurring themes\
 , narrative patterns\, and ideological tensions in Anglophone narratives o
 f upward mobility. In this talk\, I focus on two case studies from my cor
 pus: Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory (1982) and Teri A. McMurtry-C
 hubb’s Tress-passing: A Hair-raising Tale of Surviving by Migrating to t
 he Un(Class)ified Mind (2014). Both texts present the racialized body as 
 a site where the social meanings of bodily appearance shift with upward mo
 bility. Focusing on skin color in Hunger of Memory and hair in Tress-pass
 ing\, I examine how the two authors negotiate the relationship between bod
 ily appearance and racialized expectations of respectability. 
X-ALT-DESC:<p>My PhD project examines Anglophone autobiographical accounts 
 of moving from the working class to the middle class through education. Fo
 cusing on selected autobiographical works from the United States and the U
 nited Kingdom published between the 1980s and today\, my dissertation inve
 stigates how experiences of upward class mobility are represented across d
 ifferent forms of life writing\, including memoirs\, single-author essay c
 ollections\, and multi-author essay anthologies. I use the recent genre co
 ncept of “Autosociobiography” as a heuristic framework for bringing th
 ese formally diverse works into conversation and examining recurring theme
 s\, narrative patterns\, and ideological tensions in Anglophone narratives
  of upward mobility. In this talk\,&nbsp\;I focus on two case studies from
  my corpus: Richard Rodriguez’s <i>Hunger of Memory</i>&nbsp\;(1982) and
  Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb’s <i>Tress-passing: A Hair-raising Tale of Survi
 ving by Migrating to the Un(Class)ified Mind</i>&nbsp\;(2014). Both texts 
 present the racialized body as a site where the social meanings of bodily 
 appearance shift with upward mobility.&nbsp\;Focusing on skin color in <i>
 Hunger of Memory</i> and hair in <i>Tress-passing</i>\, I examine how the 
 two authors negotiate the relationship between bodily appearance and racia
 lized expectations of respectability.&nbsp\;</p>
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