Tracing The Autobiographical

by Kadar, Marlene; Warley, Linda; Perreault, Jeanne; Egan, Susanna

• ISBN13: 9780889204768
• ISBN10: 0889204764
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-20
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

Summary

The essays in Tracing the Autobiographicalwork with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the individual. Attending to ethics, exile, tyranny, and hope, the contributors listen for echoes and murmurs as well as authoritative declarations. They also watch for the appearance of auto/biography in unexpected places, tracing patterns from materials that have been left behind. Many of the essays return to the question of text or traces of text, demonstrating that the language of autobiography, as well as the textualized identities of individual persons, can be traced in multiple media and sometimes unlikely documents, each of which requires close textual examination. These "unlikely documents" include a deportation list, an art exhibit, reality TV, Web sites and chat rooms, architectural spaces, and government memos, as well as the more familiar literary genres-a play, the long poem, or the short story.Interdisciplinary in scope and contemporary in outlook, Tracing the Autobiographicalis a welcome addition to autobiography scholarship, focusing on non-traditional genres and on the importance of location and place in life writing

Table of Contents

Introduction

Memoir Writing, the Internet, and Embodied Discursive Agency

Reading the Autobiographical in Personal Home Pages

Reality TV Has Spoken: Auto/Biography Matters

Performing the Auto/Biographical Pact

Domestic Space and the Idea of Home in Auto/Biographical Practices

The Shifting Grounds of Exile and Home in Daphne

Law Stories as Life Stories

Egodocuments and the Ethics of Propaganda

Gender, Nation and Self-Narration: Three Generations of Dayan Women in Palestine/Israel

Giving Pain a Place in the World: Aboriginal Women's Bodies in Australian Stolen Generations Autobiographical Narratives

Circular Journeys and Glass Bridges: The Geography of Postmemory

The Devouring: Traces of Roma in the Holocaust: No Tattoo, Sterilised Body, Gypsy Girl

The Authors and their Essays

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