The Ethics of Working Class Autobiography
Subtitle: Representation of Family by Four American Authors
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: July 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780786425761
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Biography & Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Literary; 20th century; Authors, American; Biography; History and criticism; United States; Working class authors
Description: "Focusing on the ethics of autobiography, this volume analyzes the works of four writers who spent much of their youth in working-class circumstances yet became highly educated intellectual professionals. It examines the way in which they confront their working-class past. In addition to representing different times, each work recounts the author's struggle with a particular societal element"--Provided by publisher.