Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative
"In this fascinating, lucid, and deeply humanistic extension of his earlier work on autobiography, Paul John Eakin illuminates the acts by which we become players in a dynamic narrative identity system that is fundamental to our sense of self. Eakin energetically pursues the broadest questions, deftly incorporating insights from neurobiology and anthropology to help us see the ways that autobiography is an integral, adaptive part of our experience as we live it, and of our creation of a future."—Jeffrey Wallen, Hampshire College, author of Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture"Living Autobiographically is a wide-ranging and compelling meditation on the grounds for believing that various registers of narrative are essential to our sense of who we are. As ever, Paul John Eakin is leading reflection on life writing into new places."—David Parker, Chinese University of Hong Kong, author of The Self in Moral Space: Life Narrative and the Good