In the Presence of Audience: The Self in Diaries and Fiction

by Deborah Martinson

As a diary writer imagines shadow readers rifling diary pages, she tweaks images of the self, creating multiple readings of herself, fixed and unfixed. When the readers and potential readers are husbands and publishers, the writer maneuvers carefully in a world of men who are quick to judge and to take offense. She fills the pages with reflections, anecdotes, codes, stories, biographies, and fictions. The diary acts as a site for the writer's tension,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256651
• ISBN13: 9780814256657
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"