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Mirror Talk
Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography
Taschenbuch von Susanna Egan
Sprache: Englisch

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Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crises and cannot even assume authoritative, first-person narration. Susanna Egan finds such autobiographies dialogic in form, involving the reader in generic experimentation in their pursuit of shifting, uncertain meanings. After tracing the literary experimentation of contemporary genres to the inventiveness of modernism, she explores the generic contributions of drama, film, quilting, comics, and blended literary forms to changing genres of autobiography. Egan identifies lived crises--such as diaspora, genocide, and terminal illness--as the forces behind generic experimentation, suggesting dynamic intersections between trauma and cultural expression.

Mirror Talk examines work by a wide range of autobiographers, including Primo Levi, Maxine Hong Kingston, Audre Lorde, Michael Ondaatje, Tom Joslin, Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee, Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum, Breyten Breytenbach, Linda Griffiths and Maria Campbell, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mary Meigs, Dennis Potter, and Trinh T. Minh-ha.
Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crises and cannot even assume authoritative, first-person narration. Susanna Egan finds such autobiographies dialogic in form, involving the reader in generic experimentation in their pursuit of shifting, uncertain meanings. After tracing the literary experimentation of contemporary genres to the inventiveness of modernism, she explores the generic contributions of drama, film, quilting, comics, and blended literary forms to changing genres of autobiography. Egan identifies lived crises--such as diaspora, genocide, and terminal illness--as the forces behind generic experimentation, suggesting dynamic intersections between trauma and cultural expression.

Mirror Talk examines work by a wide range of autobiographers, including Primo Levi, Maxine Hong Kingston, Audre Lorde, Michael Ondaatje, Tom Joslin, Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee, Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum, Breyten Breytenbach, Linda Griffiths and Maria Campbell, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mary Meigs, Dennis Potter, and Trinh T. Minh-ha.
Über den Autor
Susanna Egan is associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia and author of Patterns of Experience in Autobiography.
Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 288
ISBN-13: 9780807847824
ISBN-10: 0807847828
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Egan, Susanna
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Susanna Egan
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.1999
Gewicht: 0,494 kg
preigu-id: 106698178
Über den Autor
Susanna Egan is associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia and author of Patterns of Experience in Autobiography.
Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 288
ISBN-13: 9780807847824
ISBN-10: 0807847828
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Egan, Susanna
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Susanna Egan
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.1999
Gewicht: 0,494 kg
preigu-id: 106698178
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