Books by Sidonie Smith

?This study focuses on a few autobiographies of Negroes in order to examine their responses to the larger community over the past century and before....A useful well-documented study.?-Choice

After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform.

Editors Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson have been at the vanguard of the study of women's self-representation, and here have collected leading critics' and scholars' thoughts on artistic fusions of the visual and autobiographical. Contributors offer new insights into the work of such artists as Laurie Anderson, Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo, and Orlan.

Visual media offer possible lives through soap operas, talk shows, and newspapers and magazines. This text explores a variety of occasions during which people consume personal narratives, aiming to expand our understanding of how we negotiate and commodify identity.