1600 Pages
by Routledge

The analysis of life-writing as a distinct and specialized project emerged only in the second half of the twentieth century. That it has achieved both academic respectability and critical cachet over the last twenty-five years is the result of a number of trends. Politically 'progressive' tendencies, from the civil rights, workers' educational and second-wave women's movements, to the... Read more

Volume 1  Introduction.  Part 1: Founding Statements.  Part 2: Beyond Truth versus Fiction  Volume 2  Part 3: Discovering Difference  Volume 3  Part 4: Personal Stories, Hidden Histories.  Part 5: Psychology, Psychoanalysis and the Narrability of Lives.  Part 6: Autobiography as Critique  Volume 4  Part 7: Personal Texts as Autobiography.  Part 8: Cultures of Life Writing

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Edited by Trev Lynn Broughton