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Altered egos : authority in American autobiography / G. Thomas Couser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Couser, G. Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autobiography.
- Authority in literature.
- American prose literature--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is concerned with the ""authority"" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography; 2 Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions; 4 Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P. T. Barnum; 5 False ""I's"": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography; 6 (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Autobiography; 7 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction; 8 Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue; 9 Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston; 10 Conclusion; Notes
- Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-52390-5
- 0-19-534523-1
- 1-4294-0101-X
- OCLC:
- 191924216
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