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Ethics of Life Writing

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ISBN-10: 0801488338

ISBN-13: 9780801488337

Edition: 2004

Authors: Paul John Eakin

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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction : mapping the ethics of life writing
Arguing with life stories : the case of Rigoberta Menchu
Misremembering Ted Hughes
Life writing as narrative of the good : Father and son and the ethics of authenticity
Judging and not judging parents
Friendship, fiction, and memoir : trust and betrayal in writing from one's own life
Decent and indecent : writing my father's life
The ethics of betrayal : diary of a memoirist
Mapping lives : "truth," life writing, and DNA
Moral non-fiction : life writing and children's disability
When life writing becomes death writing : disability and the ethics of parental euthanography
Tales of consent and descent : life writing as a fight against an imposed self-image
Afterword
Contributors
Index