At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America

by Sylvia Molloy

Book Overview

This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beginnings in the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day concentrates mainly on cultural and historical issues. Spanish American autobiographies are fascinating hybrids, often wielding several discourses at once. They aspire to documentary status while unabashedly exalting the self, and dwell on personal experience while purporting to be exercises in historiography, the founding texts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521022800
• ISBN13: 9780521022804
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"