The Ethics of Life Writing

by Eakin, Paul John

• ISBN13: 9780801488337
• ISBN10: 0801488338
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Mapping the Ethics of Life Writing	1	(18)
Paul John Eakin
PART I Telling the Truth in Autobiography, Biography, and History
1. Arguing with Life Stories: The Case of Rigoberta Menchú	19	(21)
Paul Lauritzen
2. Misremembering Ted Hughes	40	(13)
Diane Middlebrook
PART II Life Writing as Moral Inquiry
3. Life Writing as Narrative of the Good: Father and Son and the Ethics of Authenticity	53	(20)
David Parker
4. Judging and Not Judging Parents	73	(28)
John D. Barbour
PART III Representing Others: Trust and Betrayal
5. Friendship, Fiction, -and Memoir: Trust and Betrayal in Writing from One's Own Life	101	(20)
Claudia Mills
6. Decent and Indecent: Writing My Father's Life	121	(26)
Richard Freadman
7. The Ethics of Betrayal: Diary of a Memoirist	147	(16)
Nancy K. Miller
PART IV Acts of Resistance: Telling Counterstories
8. Mapping Lives: "Truth," Life Writing, and DNA	163	(11)
Alice Wexler
9. Moral Non-fiction: Life Writing and Children's Disability	174	(21)
Arthur W. Frank
10. When Life Writing Becomes Death Writing: Disability and the Ethics of Parental Euthanography	195	(21)
G. Thomas Couser
11. Tales of Consent and Descent: Life Writing as a Fight against an Imposed Self-Image	216	(28)
Marianne Gullestad
Afterword	244	(21)
Craig Howes
Contributors	265	(4)
Index	269