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

1. American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
2. Autobiography
3. English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
4. Autobiographical fiction -- History and criticism
5. First-person narrative
6. Self literature