Inscribed identities life writing as self-realization / edited by Joan Ramon Resina.

Other author Resina, Joan Ramon.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesRoutledge auto/biography studies
Contents Jean Am©♭ry: between critical reason and despair / Enzo Traverso -- The novel as life writing: fiction and testimony in Jorge Sempr©ðn and Imre Kert©♭sz / 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 S©œffner -- 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 ©vila / 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 Jan©♭.
Abstract "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 Dal©Ư'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 K©Þte Hamburger and Philippe Lejeune in the 1960s and 70s articulated distinctions and similarities between fiction and the genre of personal declaration. Especially since Foucault's seminal essay on "Self Writing," self-production through writing has become more versatile, gaining a broader range of expression, diversifying its social function, and colonizing new media of representation. For this reason, it seems appropriate to speak of life-writing as a concept that includes but is not limited to classic autobiography. Awareness of language's performativity permits us to read life-writing texts not as a record but as the space where the self is realized, or in some instances de-realized. Such texts can build identity, but they can also contest ascribed identity by producing alternative or disjointed scenarios of identification. And they not only relate to the present, but may also act upon the past by virtue of their retrospective effects in the confluence of narrator and witness"-- Provided by publisher.
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