AuthorGilmore, Leigh
TitleThe 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

  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

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