Altered Egos : Authority in American Autobiography.
This work explores the ""authority"" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, be...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cary :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780195345230 0195345231 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography; 2 Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions; 4 Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P.T. Barnum; 5 False ""I's"": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography; 6 (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Autobiography; 7 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction; 8 Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue; 9 Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston; 10 Conclusion; Notes.
- Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.