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The limits of autobiography : Trauma and testimony, with a new preface / Leigh Gilmore.
Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- author.
2023
PS366.A88 G55 2023
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Title
The limits of autobiography : Trauma and testimony, with a new preface / Leigh Gilmore.
Author
Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- author.
ISBN
9781501770791 electronic book
1501770799 electronic book
9781501770784 electronic book
1501770780 electronic book
9781501770760 hardcover
9781501770777 paperback
Published
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 163 pages)
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PS366.A88 G55 2023
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818/.50809492
Summary
"An analysis of how trauma shaped innovation in autobiographical writing during the memoir boom"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Reprinted 2023 with new preface."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Limits of autobiography
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Introduction: The limits of autobiography
Represent yourself
Bastard testimony : illegitimacy and incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina
There will always be a father : transference and the auto/biographical demand in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the heart
There will always be a mother : Jamaica Kincaid's serial autobiography
Without names : an anatomy of absence in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the body
Conclusion: The knowing subject and an alternative jurisprudence of trauma.

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