Autobiography and Postmodernism

by Leigh Gilmore and Kathleen Ashley

Book Overview

Exploring the connections between autobiography and postmodernism, this book addresses self-representation in a variety of literature -- Native American, British, Chicana, immigrant, and lesbian, among others -- in genres as diverse as poetry, naming, and confession, photography, and the manifesto. The essays examine how different writers respond to the culturally specific pressures of genre, how these constraints are negotiated, and what self-representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870239007
• ISBN13: 9780870239007
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher