In that sense, these autobiographies are far from being mere stories of the past. The personal opening in such narratives is an autonomous act that initiates cross-disciplinary dialogues that trigger empowerment and proposes future changes. Academic autobiographies like Arab American history professor Leila Ahmad's A Border Passage from Cairo to America A Woman’s Journey (2012) and African American theology professor Amina Wadud’s Inside the Gender Jihad (2008) are two examples of the production of interwoven private and public histories. Though a very personal opening, autobiography is seen as a documentation of public events from a personal perspective. While autobiography is considered as a "writing back," I argue here that it is rather a strategic transitional act that connects the past with the present and remaps the future. He suggested a platform through which autonomous aesthetics and academic issues to be understood as inextricably linked to other discourses. Louis Montrose's "Professing the Renaissance: the Poetics and Politics of Culture" renewed concern with the historical, social and political conditions of literary productions (1989).
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