UID:
almahu_9949386620002882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 193 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003107842
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1003107842
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9781000367379
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1000367371
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9781000367324
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1000367320
Series Statement:
Routledge auto/biography studies
Content:
"Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability often seek to depathologize the conditions that they recount. Memoirs of parents by their children extend or alter relations forged initially face to face in the home. At a time when memoir and other forms of life writing are being produced and consumed in unprecedented numbers, I remind readers that memoir is not mainly a "literary" genre or mere entertainment. Similarly, letters are not merely epiphenomena of our "real lives." Correspondence does not just serve to communicate; it enacts and sustains human relationships. Memoir matters, and there's life in letters. All life writing arises of our daily lives and has distinctive impacts on them and the culture in which we live"--
Note:
Prologue: Death and Life Writing: Reflections on My Morbid Career -- Introduction: The Work of Memoir -- Quality-of-Life Writing: Illness, Disability, and Contemporary American Memoir -- Is There a Body in This Text? Embodiment in Graphic Somatography -- Genre Matters: Form, Force, and Filiation -- Memoir and (Lack of) Memory: Filial Narratives of Paternal Dementia -- Paper Orphans: Writers' Children Write Their Lives -- Filiation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father -- Disability, Depression, Diagnosis, and Harm: Reflections on Two Personal Scenarios -- Vulnerable Subjects: Caveat Scriptor -- The Shape of Death in American Autobiography - On "Freedom Writing": Expression and Repression - Life in Letters: Letters as Life.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Couser, G. Thomas. Work of life writing. New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367620783
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003107842
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003107842
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