1st Edition
Autobiographies of Others Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction
By Lucia Boldrini
Copyright 2012
242 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
258 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In this volume, Boldrini examines "heterobiography"—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely employed to reflect critically on the historical and philosophical understanding of the human; on individual identity; and on the power relationships that define the subject. In such texts, the grammatical first person becomes the site of an encounter,... Read more
Selected Contents: Introduction: The Portrait of a Voice 1. Heterobiography and The Utopia of Man 2. Heterobiography, Violence, and the Law 3. The Madness of the Documentary and the Aesthetics of the Body 4. The Author? In Theory, Dead: Heterobiography and Responsibility 5. The Polluted Swamp: Heterobiography, Dialogue, and History
Biography
Lucia Boldrini is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
