The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony /
Gilmore, Leigh, 1959-
The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony / Leigh Gilmore. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2001. - x, 163 p. ; 23 cm. - Cornell paperbacks .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Memoirs in which trauma take a major - or the major - role challenge the limits of autobiography. The author presents a series of "limit-cases"--Texts that combine various elements including autobiography and fiction, and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from formal constraints.
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Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Written on the body.
Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina.
Gilmore, Mikal, 1951- Shot in the heart.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Autobiography.
English prose literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Autobiographical fiction--History and criticism.
First person narrative.
Self in literature.
The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony / Leigh Gilmore. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2001. - x, 163 p. ; 23 cm. - Cornell paperbacks .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Memoirs in which trauma take a major - or the major - role challenge the limits of autobiography. The author presents a series of "limit-cases"--Texts that combine various elements including autobiography and fiction, and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from formal constraints.
0801486742 0801437997
GBA2-25165
0801486742 Uk
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Written on the body.
Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina.
Gilmore, Mikal, 1951- Shot in the heart.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Autobiography.
English prose literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Autobiographical fiction--History and criticism.
First person narrative.
Self in literature.