Introduction: The Limits of Autobiography -- 1. Represent Yourself -- 2. Bastard Testimony: Illegitimacy and Incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina -- 3. There Will Always Be a Father: Transference and the Auto/biographical Demand in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart -- 4. There Will Always Be a Mother: Jamaica Kincaid's Serial Autobiography -- 5. Without Names: An Anatomy of Absence in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body -- Conclusion: The Knowing Subject and an Alternative Jurisprudence of Trauma
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index
