Altered egos: authority in American autobiography
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1. Verfasser: Couser, G. Thomas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1989
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index
Prologue - the case of the counterfeit autobiography -- - Introduction - authority, autobiography, America -- - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: self-constitutional conventions -- - Prose and cons: the autobiographies of P.T. Barnum -- - False "I's": Mark Twain's pseudonymous autobiography -- - (En)slave(d) narrative: early Afro-American autobiography -- - Mary Boykin Chesnut: succession, confederacy, reconstruction -- - Black Elk Speaks with forked tongue -- - Biculturalism in contemporary autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston
This book is concerned with the "authority" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 285 p.)
ISBN:019505833X
0195345231
1280523905
142940101X
9780195058338
9780195345230
9781280523908
9781429401012

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