Inscribed Identities (eBook, PDF)

Life Writing as Self-Realization
Redaktion: Ramon Resina, Joan

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Produktbeschreibung

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure; awareness of language's performativity permits us to read life-writing texts not as a record but as the space where the self is realized, or in some instances de-realized.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429666612
• Artikelnr.: 55075381

Autorenporträt

Joan Ramon Resina teaches in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he directs the Iberian Studies Program at the Europe Center. Visiting appointments in Berlin, Mexico D.F., Valencia, and New York. Awards include the Donald Andrews Whittier Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Fulbright fellowship, the Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship, a Wien International Scholarship, a DAAD grant, fellowships at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig and at the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata in Cologne, the Serra d'Or prize for literary criticism, the Omnium Cultural award (Ex Aequo with the European TV channel Arte), and the Literary Criticism Award of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. He has published extensively in professional journals and collective volumes. Between 1998 and 2004 he was general editor of Diacritics. Select books include: The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society (Liverpool UP, 2017), Josep Pla: The World Seen in the Form of Articles (Toronto UP, 2017), Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image (Stanford UP, 2008), Del Hispanismo a los Estudios Ibéricos. Una propuesta federativa para el ámbito cultural (2009) , El postnacionalisme en el mapa global (Angle Editorial, 2005), El cadáver en la cocina: La novela policiaca en la cultura del desencanto (Anthropos, 1997), Los usos del clásico (Anthropos, 1991), Un sueño de piedra: Ensayos sobre la literatura del modernismo europeo (Anthropos, 1990). He is the editor of ten other essay collections.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Joan Ramon Resina
Jean Améry: Between Critical Reason and Despair
Enzo Traverso
The Novel as Life Writing: Fiction and Testimony in Jorge Semprún and Imre
Kertész
Antonio Monegal
Life - Death - Writing: Robert Walser's Snow Images
Martin Roussel
Assumed Identity: Writing and Reading Testimony through and as Anne Frank
Laurie McNeill
Autobiographical Inscription and the Identity Assemblage
Sidonie Smith
Lines of Flight: Self-Writing and the Assembled Body in Kirmen Uribe's
Bilbao-New York-Bilbao
William Viestenz
How to Stay Alive in Your Own Story - Ulysses in Dante and Homer
Jan Söffner
Life in the Dream: Freud's Self-Display through Screen Cultural Memories
Joan Ramon Resina
Writing Oneself as Another - Writing Another as Oneself: Julia Kristeva and
Teresa of Ávila
Jenny Haase
Painting Faces: A Swedish Portraitist and his Native American Subjects in
18th-century North America
Linda Haverty Rugg
The Afterlife of a Disaster: Everest 1996 Memoirs as Gendered Testimony
Julie Rak
Self-Writings and Egodocuments: Personal memoirs in Catalonia (16th-19th
centuries)
Oscar Jané