The Limits of Autobiography : : Trauma and Testimony / / Leigh Gilmore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gilmore, Leigh,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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