ABSTRACT
Judy Chicago’s autobiographies Through the Flower (1976) and Beyond the Flower (1992) together tell the story of her development from Jewish girlhood to mature artist, and in that way are quite conventional. Yet they also are unexpected in the brash use of the discourse of consciousness-raising in the first book, which disappears in the second. As it explores this refashioning of the self, a frequent phenomenon in serial autobiography, this chapter also introduces the idea of “interfacing” autobiography by bringing Chicago’s autobiographies into conversation with Leslie Lacy’s The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro (1970) and Native Daughter (1974).
