Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 240 g
Reihe: Life Writing
Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 240 g
Reihe: Life Writing
ISBN: 978-0-367-59009-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
By attending to limits, border cases, hybridity, generic complexities, formal ambiguities, and extra-literary expressions of life writing, The Limits of Life Writing offers new insights into the nature of auto/biographical writing in contemporary culture. The contributions to this book deal with subjects and forms of life writing that test the limits of identity and the tradition of life writing. The liminal case studies explored include magical-realist fiction, graphic memoir, confessional poetry, and personal blogs. They also explore the ethical limits of representation found in Holocaust life writing, the importance of ficto-critical memoir as a form of resistance for trans writers, and the use of ‘postmemoir’ to navigate the traumas of diasporic experience. In addition, The Limits of Life Writing goes beyond the conventional limits of life writing scholarship to consider how writers themselves experience limits in the creation of life writing, offering a work of life writing that is itself concerned with charting the limits of auto/biographical expression. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: The Limits of Life Writing 1. Joe Sacco’s Australian Story 2. Malala Yousafzai, Life Narrative and the Collaborative Archive 3. Remembering Violence in Alice Pung’s Her Father’s Daughter: The Postmemoir and Diasporisation 4. Witnessing Moral Compromise: ‘Privilege’, Judgement and Holocaust Testimony 5. ‘A Thing May Happen and be a Total Lie’: Artifice and Trauma in Tim O’Brien’s Magical Realist Life Writing 6. Forms of Resistance: Uses of Memoir, Theory, and Fiction in Trans Life Writing 7. Confessional Poetry and the Materialisation of an Autobiographical Self 8. Reflection: I Guess What You Say is True