Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography

by Susanna Egan

Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crises and cannot even assume authoritative, first-person narration. Susanna Egan finds such autobiographies dialogic in form, involving the reader in generic experimentation in their pursuit of shifting, uncertain meanings. After tracing the literary experimentation of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847828
• ISBN13: 9780807847824
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"