Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)
Description
As life-writing began to attract critical attention in the 1950s and 60s, theorists, critics, and practitioners of autobiography concerned themselves with inscribing--that is, establishing or asserting--a set of conventions that would define constructions of identity and acts of self-representation. More recently, however, scholars have identified the ways in which autobiographical works recognize and resist those conventions. Moving beyond the narrow, prescriptive definition of autobiography as the factual, chronological, first-person narrative of the life story, critics have theorized the...
ISBN(s)
0195123417, 9780195123418
