agency in personal narratives
archival and oral source use
authorship and community relations
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collective biography approaches
comparative cultural readings
confessional modes in prose
contemporary theory of narrative
cross-border life-text forms
cultural life-writing theory
cultural-specific genre critique
declarative polemic analysis
diasporic authorship
diasporic memory frameworks
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ethnic expressive genres
experimental life-texts analysis
feminist literary methods
genre pressure and creativity
genre-bending life texts
hybridized textual forms
Indigenous literature studies
intersectional identity inquiry
intimate disclosure public sphere
life-narrative across cultures
life-writing criticism
life-writing pedagogy resources
marginal subjectivity studies
memory and narrative ethics
methodological reflections in criticism
Mexican-American women's voices
multilingual narrative strategies
name and identity studies
narrative ethics and responsibility
narrative voice and positionality
onomastic practices and power
performative rhetoric in life-texts
performative self-construction
photographic self-portrait studies
postmodern-era textual practice
queer women's narratives
subjectivity under modern critique
theory-informed close reading
transnational selfhood
UK literary perspectives
verse and lyrical forms
visual-image testimony
writing from marginal locations
Product details
- ISBN 9780870239007
- Weight: 517g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 1994
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Exploring the connections between autobiography and postmodernism, this book addresses self-representation in a variety of literatures - Native American, British, Chicana, immigrant, and lesbian, among others - in genres as diverse as poetry, naming, 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 theorise 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 other locations.
