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Inscribed Identities: Life Writing as Self-Realization book cover

1st Edition

Inscribed Identities Life Writing as Self-Realization

Edited By Joan Ramon Resina Copyright 2019
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge
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Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions , Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions . Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by... Read more

Introduction



Joan Ramon Resina





Jean Améry: Between Critical Reason and Despair



Enzo Traverso





The Novel as Life Writing: Fiction and Testimony in Jorge Semprún and Imre Kertész



Antonio Monegal





Life – Death – Writing: Robert Walser’s Snow Images



Martin Roussel





Assumed Identity: Writing and Reading Testimony through and as Anne Frank



Laurie McNeill



Autobiographical Inscription and the Identity Assemblage



Sidonie Smith





Lines of Flight: Self-Writing and the Assembled Body in Kirmen Uribe’s Bilbao-New York-Bilbao



William Viestenz





How to Stay Alive in Your Own Story – Ulysses in Dante and Homer



Jan Söffner





Life in the Dream: Freud’s Self-Display through Screen Cultural Memories



Joan Ramon Resina





Writing Oneself as Another – Writing Another as Oneself: Julia Kristeva and Teresa of Ávila



Jenny Haase





Painting Faces: A Swedish Portraitist and his Native American Subjects in 18th-century North America



Linda Haverty Rugg





The Afterlife of a Disaster: Everest 1996 Memoirs as Gendered Testimony



Julie Rak





Self-Writings and Egodocuments: Personal memoirs in Catalonia (16th-19th centuries)



Oscar Jané

Biography

Joan Ramon Resina teaches in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he directs the Iberian Studies Program at the Europe Center. Visiting appointments in Berlin, Mexico D.F., Valencia, and New York. Awards include the Donald Andrews Whittier Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Fulbright fellowship, the Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship, a Wien International Scholarship, a DAAD grant, fellowships at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig and at the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata in Cologne, the Serra d’Or prize for literary criticism, the Omnium Cultural award (Ex Aequo with the European TV channel Arte), and the Literary Criticism Award of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. He has published extensively in professional journals and collective volumes. Between 1998 and 2004 he was general editor of Diacritics. Select books include: The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society (Liverpool UP, 2017), Josep Pla: The World Seen in the Form of Articles (Toronto UP, 2017), Barcelona’s Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image (Stanford UP, 2008), Del Hispanismo a los Estudios Ibéricos. Una propuesta federativa para el ámbito cultural (2009), El postnacionalisme en el mapa global (Angle Editorial, 2005), El cadáver en la cocina: La novela policiaca en la cultura del desencanto (Anthropos, 1997), Los usos del clásico (Anthropos, 1991), Un sueño de piedra: Ensayos sobre la literatura del modernismo europeo (Anthropos, 1990). He is the editor of ten other essay collections.

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