Description |
viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Mark of autobiography : postmodernism, autobiography and genre / Leigh Gilmore -- Adding to my life / Andrei Codrescu -- Politics of genre in Carmen Martín Gaite's 'Back Room' / Christopher Ortiz -- Policing truth : confession, gender, and autobiographical authority / Leigh Gilmore -- Autobiograhical voices (1, 2, 3) and mosaic memory : experimental sondages in the (post)modern world / Michael M. J. Fischer -- Postmodernism and the autobiographical subject : reconstructing the 'other' / Betty Bergland -- Geography of conversion : dialogical boundaries of self in Antin's 'Promised Land' / Kirsten Wasson -- Posing : autobiography and the subject of photography / Paul Jay -- Plains Indian names and 'the autobiographical act' / Hertha D. Wong -- Nuptial interruptions : autobiographical boundaries in Wordsworth's 'Farewell' / David P. Haney -- Identity's body / Sidonie Smith -- 'An appearance walking in a forest the sexes burn' : autobiography and the construction of the feminine body / Shirley Neuman |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Autobiography.
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Biography as a literary form.
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English prose literature -- History and criticism.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
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Author |
Ashley, Kathleen M., 1944-
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Gilmore, Leigh, 1959-
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Peters, Gerald, 1952-
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LC no. |
93032437 |
ISBN |
087023899X |
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0870239007 |
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