Autobiography and Postmodernism

These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity.

About the author

Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, and Gerald Peters are all professors of English at the University of Southern Maine.

Summary

These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, Gerald Peters
• Assisted by: Kathleen Ashley (Editor), Kathleen M. Ashley (Editor), Leigh Gilmore (Editor), Gerald Peters (Editor), Gerald (all Professors of English Peters (Editor), Gerald Peters (all Professors of English USA) (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Massachusetts Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.1994
• EAN: 9780870239007
• ISBN: 978-0-87023-900-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries