Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism

by Suzanne Bost

Book Overview

Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzald a work in places where personal history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252084624
• ISBN13: 9780252084621
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"