Serial Memoir [electronic resource] : Archiving American Lives /
Stamant, N.author.
Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities and their ambivalent relationship to the concept and structure of the archive.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Archiving American Lives in Serial Memoir; 2 Mary McCarthy''s Archival Performance as a ""Perfect Execution of the Idea"": Reading Recursivity and Revision, Seriality and Supplementarity; 3 Alternate Archives: Maya Angelou''s The Complete Autobiographies or the Seriality of a Life Mosaic; 4 ""Too Meta to Live"": The Materiality of Seriality from Art Spiegelman''s ""Maus"" to Meta Maus; 5 Augusten Burroughs and Serial Culture; 6 Conclusion: ""Veneration of the Trace"": Archiving American Lives into the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Bibliography
Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities and their ambivalent relationship to the concept and structure of the archive.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Children's literature.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Children's Literature.
Fiction.