The limits of autobiography trauma and testimony, with a new preface / Leigh Gilmore.

Contents Introduction: The limits of autobiography -- Represent yourself -- Bastard testimony : illegitimacy and incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- There will always be a father : transference and the auto/biographical demand in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the heart -- There will always be a mother : Jamaica Kincaid's serial autobiography -- Without names : an anatomy of absence in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the body -- Conclusion: The knowing subject and an alternative jurisprudence of trauma.
Abstract "An analysis of how trauma shaped innovation in autobiographical writing during the memoir boom"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"Reprinted 2023 with new preface."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- Limits of autobiography 2023 printing. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023 9781501770760
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