Introduction: African American autobiography in the "age of Obama" / Eric D. Lamore -- "A dying man": the outlaw body of Arthur, 1768 / Lynn A. Casmier-Paz -- Early black men's spiritual autobiography: marriage and violence / Joycelyn K. Moody -- Olaudah Equiano in the United States: Abigail Mott's 1829 abridged edition of the Interesting Narrative / Eric D. Lamore -- The visual properties of black autobiography: the case of William J. Edwards / Anthony S. Foy -- Richard Wright's environments: mediating personhood through the South's second nature / Susan Scott Parrish -- "A space of concentration": the autobiographical comics of Richard "Grass" Green and Samuel R. Delany / Brian Cremins -- Born into this body: black women's use of Buddhism in autobiographical narratives / Tracy Curtis -- From blog to books: Angela Nissel, authorship, and the digital public sphere / Linda Furgerson Selzer -- Grafted belongings: identification in autobiographical narratives of African American transracial adoptees / Marina Fedosik -- Reading signs of crazy: Pam Grier, a black feminist in praxis / Kwakiutl L. Dreher