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The Limits of Autobiography
Leigh Gilmore
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Description for The Limits of Autobiography
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Memoirs in which trauma takes a major-or the major-role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of limit-cases -texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing trauma and the self-and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from the formal constraints of autobiography when the representation of trauma coincides with self-representation. Gilmore maintains that conflicting demands on both the self and narrative may prompt formal experimentation by such writers and lead to texts that are not, strictly speaking, autobiography, but are nonetheless deeply engaged with its central concerns.In astute and compelling ... Read more
Memoirs in which trauma takes a major-or the major-role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of limit-cases -texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing trauma and the self-and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from the formal constraints of autobiography when the representation of trauma coincides with self-representation. Gilmore maintains that conflicting demands on both the self and narrative may prompt formal experimentation by such writers and lead to texts that are not, strictly speaking, autobiography, but are nonetheless deeply engaged with its central concerns.In astute and compelling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
293g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486746
SKU
V9780801486746
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About Leigh Gilmore
Leigh Gilmore is Visiting Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California-Berkeley. She is the author of Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Self-Representation, also from Cornell, and coeditor of Autobiography and Postmodernism.
Reviews for The Limits of Autobiography
Leigh Gilmore easily negotiates disparate fields of scholarship yet speaks significantly to all of them-from poststructuralist and feminist theory to medical studies of trauma. Her arguments are theoretically sophisticated and engaging, while her thinking about the individual texts is lucid, arresting, and new.
Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University Gilmore offers astute and compelling commentaries in relation to ... Read more
Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University Gilmore offers astute and compelling commentaries in relation to ... Read more