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Fiction and Autobiography: Modes and Models of Interaction
Contributor(s): Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine (Editor), Görtschacher, Wolfgang (Editor)

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 ISBN: 3631543859     ISBN-13: 9783631543856
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
OUR PRICE: $120.08  

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Published: April 2006
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 809.304
LCCN: 2006046502
Series: Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture
Physical Information: 330 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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Both the postmodern debate about the death of the author and cultural debates about constructing identities (national, socio-political, cultural, ethnic, sexual, etc.) have led to multiple attempts at redefining autobiography, traditionally predicated on concepts of identity and truth. By bringing together twenty-seven case studies of autobiographical texts from over four centuries and from a variety of cultural (mainly Anglophone) backgrounds, this book demonstrates how fruitful a critical focus on the interaction between autobiography and fiction proves for understanding the complex strategies by which subject positions are established and communicated. The texts examined include: De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, Ana s Nin's diaries, General Sherman's Memoirs, Abdelk bir Khatibi's L'Amour bilingue, Nirad Chaudhuri's Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself, Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Graham Swift's The Light of Day, Ian McEwan's Atonement, A.S. Byatt's The Biographer's Tale, Richard Wright's Black Boy, and Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road.
 
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