The work of life writing : essays and lectures / G. Thomas Couser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Couser, G. Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge auto/biography studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 193 pages) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

G. Thomas Couserreceived his doctorate in American Civilization at Brown University in 1977. After teaching English at Connecticut College, he moved on to Hofstra University, where he founded and directed a Disability Studies Program. From his dissertation on, his scholarship has been concerned with autobiography and memoir, especially with life writing stimulated by disability and illness and the ethics of life writing. His academic books include Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (1997), Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (2004), Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (2009), and Memoir: An Introduction (2012). He has also published dozens of articles and book chapters. In addition to scholarship, he has published personal essays in the Southwest Review, New Haven Review, and Hudson Review and Letter to My Father: A Memoir (2017).

Contents:

Prologue: Death and Life Writing: Reflections on My Morbid Career

Introduction: The Work of Memoir

Quality-of-Life Writing: Illness, Disability, and Contemporary American Memoir

Is There a Body in This Text? Embodiment in Graphic Somatography

Genre Matters: Form, Force, and Filiation

Memoir and (Lack of) Memory: Filial Narratives of Paternal Dementia

Paper Orphans: Writers' Children Write Their Lives

Filiation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father

Disability, Depression, Diagnosis, and Harm: Reflections on Two Personal Scenarios

Vulnerable Subjects: Caveat Scriptor

The Shape of Death in American Autobiography - On “Freedom Writing”: Expression and Repression - Life in Letters: Letters as Life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 26, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Couser, G. Thomas. Work of life writing.

ISBN:

9781003107842

1003107842

9781000367379

1000367371

9781000367324

1000367320

Publisher Number:

40030918341

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.