The Routledge Auto Biography Studies Reader

Ricia Chansky (Curatore)

Emily Hipchen (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015

The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader collects together key theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing. Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three sections—Foundations, Transformations, and Futures—each with its own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections, including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity; reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma; agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives; subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and, ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history, among others.

• Curatore: Ricia Chansky, Emily Hipchen
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Literature Readers
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 246 x 174 mm
• Peso: 656 gr.
• EAN: 9781138904781

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