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Ashley, Kathleen M.; Gilmore, Leigh; Peters, Gerald
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870239007
print isbn13
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9780870239007
ebook isbn13
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9780585083100
language
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English
subject
American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism, English prose literature--History and criticism, Postmodernism (Literature) , Autobiography.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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PS366.A88A92 1994eb
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828/.910809492
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American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism, English prose literature--History and criticism, Postmodernism (Literature) , Autobiography.
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Autobiography & Postmodernism
Edited By Kathleen Ashley Leigh Gilmore Gerald Peters
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 93-32437 ISBN 0-87023-899-X (cloth); 900-7 (pbk.) Designed by Mary Mendell Set in Adobe Caslon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Autobiography and postmodernism / edited by Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, Gerald Peters. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87023-899-X (alk. paper) ISBN 0-870a3-900-7 (pbk.; alk. paper) 1. American prose literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. English prose literatureHistory and criticism. 3. Postmodernism (Literature). 4. Autobiography. I. Ashley, Kathleen M., 1944-. II. Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- . III. Peters, Gerald, 1952-. PS366.A88A92 1994 828.910809492dc2093-32437 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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CONTENTS
Preface
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Part I Introduction
The Mark of Autobiography: Postmodernism, Autobiography, and Genre
Leigh Gilmore
3
Part II Adding to My Life
Adding to My Life
Andrei Codrescu
21
PART III "The Thing That's Most Exciting is Contradictory Vertions"
The Politics of Genre in Carmen Martn Gaite's Back Room
Christopher Ortiz
33
Policing Truth: Confession, Gender, and Autobiographical Authority
Leigh Gilmore
54
Autobiographical Voices (1, 2, 3) and Mosaic Memory: Experimental Sondages in the (Post)modern World
Michael M. J. Fischer
79
Postmodernism and the Autobiographical Subject: Reconstructing the "Other"
Betty Bergland
130
A Geography of Conversion: Dialogical Boundaries of Self in Antin's Promised Land
Kirsten Wasson
167
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Part IV "I Am Truly Becoming a Specter"
Posing: Autobiography and the Subject of Photography
Paul Jay
191
Plains Indian Names and "the Autobiographical Act"
Hertha D. Wong
212
Nuptial Interruptions: Autobiographical Boundaries in Wordsworth's "Farewel"
David P. Haney
240
Identity's Body
Sidonie Smith
266
"An Appearance Walking in a Forest the Sexes Burn": Autobiography and the Construction of the Feminine Body
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. II. Gilmore, Leigh, 1959-