Autobiography and Postmodernism - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0870239007 ISBN 13 : 9780870239007

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 1994

Synopsis

Exploring the connections between autobiography and postmodernism, this book addresses self-representation in a variety of literature--Native American, British, Chicana, immigrant, and lesbian, among others--in genres as diverse as poetry, naming, and confession, photography, and the manifesto. The essays examine how different writers respond to the culturally specific pressures of genre, how these constraints are negotiated, and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity.

In contrast to those critics of postmodernism who fear the dissolution of the active subject, the contributors here demonstrate that autobiography gives postmodernism a discourse through which to theorize human agency. The autobiographical subject that emerges is not the decentered human agent of so many versions of postmodernism but the producer of texts that call attention to the contradictions in dominant modes of self-representation and demonstrate the possibilities of writing from from other locations.

Contributors are Betty Bergland, Andrei Codrescu, Michael M. J. Fischer, Leigh Gilmore, David P. Haney, Paul Jay, Shirley Neuman, Christopher Ortiz, Sidonie Smith, Kirsten Wasson, and Hertha D. Wong.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, and Gerald Peters are all professors of English at the University of Southern Maine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870239007
• ISBN 13: 9780870239007
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Ashley Kathleen M., Gilmore Leigh
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• Personne responsable: non disponible