Title The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony / Leigh Gilmore

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 163 pages) Contents Represent yourself -- Bastard testimony : illegitimacy and incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of 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 Summary Memoirs in which trauma take a major - or the major - role challenge the limits of autobiography. The author presents a series of "limit-cases"--Texts that combine various elements including autobiography and fiction, and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from formal constraints Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Written on the body Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation Allison, Dorothy, 1949- Bastard out of Carolina Gilmore, Mikal. Shot in the heart Gilmore, Mikal. Shot in the heart Allison, Dorothy, 1949- Bastard out of Carolina Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Written on the body Kincaid, Jamaica SUBJECT Bastard out of Carolina (Allison, Dorothy) fast Subject American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Autobiography. English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Autobiographical fiction -- History and criticism First person narrative. Self in literature. Autobiographies as Topic autobiography (genre) LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. American prose literature Autobiographical fiction Autobiography English prose literature First person narrative Self in literature Autobiografie Autobiografieën. Trauma's (psychologie) Engels. Amerikaans. Englisch. Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501724343 1501724347

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