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The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony / Leigh Gilmore.

LIBRA PS366.A88 G55 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gilmore, Leigh, 1959-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Kincaid, Jamaica.
American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American prose literature.
Autobiography.
English prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
English prose literature.
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Written on the body.
Winterson, Jeanette.
Autobiographical fiction--History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction.
Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.
Allison, Dorothy, 1949- Bastard out of Carolina.
Allison, Dorothy.
Gilmore, Mikal. Shot in the heart.
Gilmore, Mikal.
First person narrative.
Self in literature.
Criticism and interpretation.
Physical Description:
x, 163 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index.
ISBN:
0801437997
0801486742
OCLC:
44593973

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