172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual. Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of... Read more
1 The possibilities of auto/biography 2 Lies, all lies: auto/biography as fiction 3 Imperatives of deference 4 Boys’ tales 5 Looking for daddy 6 The imagined self: the impossibility of auto/biography
Biography
Mary Evans is Professor of Women’s Studies and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury.
