The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony
- Title
- The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony / Leigh Gilmore.
- Published by
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 163 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Autobiography
- Autobiographical fiction > History and criticism
- Self in literature
- First person narrative
- Kincaid, Jamaica > Criticism and interpretation
- Gilmore, Mikal > Shot in the heart
- Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- > Written on the body
- Allison, Dorothy > Bastard out of Carolina
- English prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- 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.
- Call number
- JFE 01-6006
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-156) and index.
- Author
- Gilmore, Leigh, 1959-
- Title
- The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony / Leigh Gilmore.
- Imprint
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-156) and index.
- LCCN
- 00010238
- ISBN
- 0801437997 (acid-free paper)
- 0801486742 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Research call number
- JFE 01-6006