The Limits of Autobiography : : Trauma and Testimony / / Leigh Gilmore.
Memoirs in which trauma takes a major—or the major—role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"—texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing trauma and the self—and demonstrates how...
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Gilmore, Leigh, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Limits of Autobiography : Trauma and Testimony / Leigh Gilmore. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2001 1 online resource (176 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Limits of Autobiography -- 1. Represent Yourself -- 2. Bastard Testimony Illegitimacy and Incest in Dorothy Allison’s: Bastard Out of Carolina -- 3. There Will Always Be a Father: Transference and the Auto/biographical Demand in Mikal Gilmore’s Shot in the Heart -- 4. There Will Always Be a Mother: Jamaica Kincaid’s Serial Autobiography -- 5. Without Names: An Anatomy of Absence in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body -- CONCLUSION. The Knowing Subject and an Alternative Jurisprudence of Trauma -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Memoirs in which trauma takes a major—or the major—role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"—texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing trauma and the self—and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from the formal constraints of autobiography when the representation of trauma coincides with self-representation. Gilmore maintains that conflicting demands on both the self and narrative may prompt formal experimentation by such writers and lead to texts that are not, strictly speaking, autobiography, but are nonetheless deeply engaged with its central concerns.In astute and compelling readings of texts by Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dorothy Allison, Mikal Gilmore, Jamaica Kincaid, and Jeanette Winterson, Gilmore explores how each of them poses the questions, "How have I lived? How will I live?" in relation to the social and psychic forms within which trauma emerges. Challenging the very boundaries of autobiography as well as trauma, these stories are not told in conventional ways: the writers testify to how self-representation and the representation of trauma grow beyond simple causes and effects, exceed their duration in time, and connect to other forms of historical, familial, and personal pain. In their movement from an overtly testimonial form to one that draws on legal as well as literary knowledge, such texts produce an alternative means of confronting kinship, violence, and self-representation. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) American prose literature 20th century History and criticism. Autobiographical fiction History and criticism. Autobiography. English prose literature 20th century History and criticism. Literary Studies. Philosophy. Psychology & Psychiatry. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801486746 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724343 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501724343 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501724343/original |
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