Biographical Research in Eastern Europe
Subtitle: Altered Lives and Broken Biographies
Contributors: Robin Humphrey (Editor); Robert Miller (Editor); Eleana Zdravomyslova (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780754616573
Subjects: Development studies; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Marxism & Communism; Social research & statistics; 21st century; c 1990 to c 2000; Reference; Biography / Autobiography; Social Science; Sociology; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Biography; Sociology - General; Europe, Eastern; History and criticism
First sentence: In an earlier article (Roos, 1994), I have discussed the implications of the poststructuralist/postmodern position on autobiography which is - to put it crudely - that there is no Truth, no Reality, not one 'true' way to connect the object world and the spoken or written wor(l)d, but instead many interpretations, all equally possible.