Temporalities, autobiography and everyday life / edited by Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Jan, 1958-

Harbord, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

vi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

Autobiography has recently become a primary medium for cultural theory, at the center of debates about subjectivity, history, memory, authority and ethics. Through this collection of essays, Jan Campbell and Janet Habord expand the concept of autobiographical process to take into consideration recent work on the role of the intellectual, and the areas of cultural geography, historiography, and new technologies.

Contents:

I Autobiography and the academic voice

1 Platitudes of everyday life? / Janet Harbord 21

2 Making the difference: postcolonial theory and the politics of memory / Anita Rupprecht 35

3 Maternal memoirs and cultural methodologies / Jan Campbell 53

4 Heroes / Jackie Stacey 75

II Narratives of space and place

5 Memory and the city / Steve Pile 111

6 Collecting practices and autobiography: the role of objects in the mnemonic lanscape of nation / Lynda Dyson 128

7 'Because it gives me speed': travel, freedom and revenge in Indian families / Gargi Bhattacharyya 141

8 Small towns, boys and ivory towers: a naked academic / Stephen Maddison 152

III Time, history, memory

9 The eye and the hand: memory, identity and clairvoyants' narratives in England / Elizabeth Hallam 169

10 Time, history, memory: photographic life narratives and the albums of strangers / John A. Stotesbury 193

11 Technology, trauma and representation: Holocaust testimony and videotape / Simone Gigliotti 204

12 Women and the war that never happened: British women, autobiography and memory during the Gulf War / Lucy Noakes 219

IV Technologies of the self

13 Shifting boundaries / Denis Doran 235

14 Kin or clone: contemporary biotechnologies of the self / Sarah Kember 252

15 Surveying the self: broadcast home video as cultural technology / Nicole Matthews 265

16 The end of autobiography or new beginnings? Everything you never knew you'd know about someone you'll probably never meet / Michael Renov 280.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

071905575X

OCLC:

50091612

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