The Limits of Autobiography
Subtitle: Trauma and Testimony
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801437991
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary theory; History and criticism; Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; American - General; Allison, Dorothy; Bastard out of Carolina; Criticism and interpretation; Gilmore, Mikal; Kincaid, Jamaica; Shot in the heart; Winterson, Jeanette; Written on the body; American prose literature; Books & Reading; 20th century; English prose literature
First sentence: Memoir is thriving, energized in no small part by a surge in the publication of personal accounts of trauma.