The limits of autobiography : trauma and testmiony / Leigh Gilmore
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001
Descript
x, 163 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Represent yourself -- Bastard testimony: illegitimacy and incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out 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 -- Knowing subject and an alternative jurisprudence of trauma
SUBJECT
American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Autobiography
English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism