{"product_id":"limits-of-life-writing","title":"Limits of Life Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the age of social media, life writing is ubiquitous. But if life writing is now almost universal—engaged with on our phones; reported in our news; the generator of capital, no less—then what are the limits of life writing? Where does it begin and end? Do we live in a culture of life writing that has no limits? Life writing—as both a practice and a scholarly discipline—is itself markedly concerned with limits: the limits of literature, of genres, of history, of social protocols, of personal experience and forms of identity, and of memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy attending to limits, border cases, hybridity, generic complexities, formal ambiguities, and extra-literary expressions of life writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Life Writing \u003c\/i\u003eoffers new insights into the nature of auto\/biographical writing in contemporary culture. The contributions to this book deal with subjects and forms of life writing that test the limits of identity and the tradition of life writing. The liminal case studies explored include magical-realist fiction, graphic memoir, confessional poetry, and personal blogs. They also explore the ethical limits of representation found in Holocaust life writing, the importance of ficto-critical memoir as a form of resistance for trans writers, and the use of ‘postmemoir’ to navigate the traumas of diasporic experience. In addition, \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Life Writing\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond the conventional limits of life writing scholarship to consider how writers themselves experience limits in the creation of life writing, offering a work of life writing that is itself concerned with charting the limits of auto\/biographical expression. This book was originally published as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eLife Writing. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232618369368,"sku":"9780367590093","price":55.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367590093.jpg?v=1769536823","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/limits-of-life-writing","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}