The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity

Name: The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity
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ISBN: 9781623569020

ISBN-10: 1623569028

ISBN-13: 9781623569020

Edition: 2013

Authors: Macaela Maftei

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Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing calls into question the author's truthfulness or their authority to present as definitive their ‘version' of a particular event or portion of their lives. Drawing upon a wide range of late twentieth and early twenty-first-century autobiographical writing, The Fiction of Autobiography examines key aspects of autobiography from the interrelated perspectives of author, reader, critic and scholar, to reconsider how we view this form of writing, and its relationship to the way we understand and construct identity.Maftei considers recent cases and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English