Tracing the autobiographical / edited by Marlene Kadar ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kadar, Marlene, 1950-

Series:

Life writing series.

Life writing series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Autobiography in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in Tracing the Autobiographical work with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the individual. Attending to ethics, exile, tyranny, and hope, the contributors listen for echoes and murmurs as well as authoritative declarations. They also watch for the appearance of auto/biography in unexpected places, tracing patterns from materials that have been left behind. Many of the essays return to the question of text or traces of text, demonstrating that the language of auto

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Tracing the Autobiographical: Unlikely Documents, Unexpected Places; Katie.com: My Story: Memoir Writing, the Internet, and Embodied Discursive Agency; Reading the Autobiographical in Personal Home Pages; Reality TV Has Spoken: Auto/biography Matters; Performing the Auto/biographical Pact: Towards a Theory of Identity in Performance; Domestic Space and the Idea of Home in Auto/biographical Practices; The Shifting Grounds of Exile and Home in Daphne Marlatt's Steveston; Law Stories as Life Stories: Jeanette Lavell, Yvonne Bédard, and Halfbreed

Muriel Rukeyser: Egodocuments and the Ethics of PropagandaGender, Nation, and Self-Narration: Three Generations of Dayan Women in Palestine/Israel; Giving Pain a Place in the World: Aboriginal Women's Bodies in Australian Stolen Generations Autobiographical Narratives; Circular Journeys and Glass Bridges: The Geography of Postmemory; The Devouring: Traces of Roma in the Holocaust: No Tattoo, Sterilized Body, Gypsy Girl; The Authors and Their Essays; Acknowledgments; Works Cited

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610280841

9781554587162

1554587166

9781280280849

1280280840

9780889209077

0889209073

9781417599691

1417599693

OCLC:

753480549