A Philosophy of Autobiography: Body & Text

by Aakash Singh Rathore

This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi, Mishima, Warhol), literary autobiography (Hemingway, Das) as well as other genres of autobiography, including the graphic novel (Spiegelman, Satrapi), as also documentations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138496596
• ISBN13: 9781138496590
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"