American authorship and autobiographical narrative
Subtitle: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers
By: Jonathan D'Amore
Series: American literature readings in the 21st century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780230390676
Subjects: Autobiography; Biography as a literary form; Authorship; American prose literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative explores the contorted and often conflicted relationship writers have with their images and reputations as authors, particularly when they choose to write about themselves and their personal lives. By analyzing the autobiographical nonfiction of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of authorship, autobiography, and celebrity, this book considers the art of literary self-representation practiced under the forces of publishing's business imperatives and mass culture's insatiable appetite for personal stories about public figures. Contributing to ongoing conversations about the explosion of popular and critical interest in life narrative as well as those about relation of an author to his text, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of contemporary American literature, life writing studies, and authorship and publishing history, as well as the many serious and dedicated readers of Eggers, Wideman, and Mailer"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.