The Limits of Life Writing

Herausgeber: McCooey, David; Takolander, Maria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the age of social media, life writing is everywhere. But does this mean that life is limitless? The Limits of Life Writing offers new insights into life writing by attending to the limits that are approached and sometimes crossed by contemporary writers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780367590093
• ISBN-10: 0367590093
• Artikelnr.: 69891730

Autorenporträt

David McCooey is the author of the prize-winning Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography (1996/2009). He has published widely on Australian life writing and poetry, and he is also a prize-winning poet and editor. Maria Takolander is the author of Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground (2004), as well as numerous scholarly essays on magical realism and theories of creativity. She is a prize-winning fiction writer and poet.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Limits of Life Writing 1. Joe Sacco's Australian Story
2. Malala Yousafzai, Life Narrative and the Collaborative Archive 3.
Remembering Violence in Alice Pung's Her Father's Daughter: The Postmemoir
and Diasporisation 4. Witnessing Moral Compromise: 'Privilege', Judgement
and Holocaust Testimony 5. 'A Thing May Happen and be a Total Lie':
Artifice and Trauma in Tim O'Brien's Magical Realist Life Writing 6. Forms
of Resistance: Uses of Memoir, Theory, and Fiction in Trans Life Writing
7. Confessional Poetry and the Materialisation of an Autobiographical Self
8. Reflection: I Guess What You Say is True