This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global
autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the
(re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed
here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche),
autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi, Mishima, Warhol),
literary autobiography (Hemingway, Das) as well as other genres of
autobiography, including the graphic novel (Spiegelman, Satrapi),
as also documentations of tragedy and injustice and subsequent
spiritual overcoming (Ambedkar, Pawar, Angelou, Wiesel). In
exploring different literary forms and orientations of the
autobiographies, the work remains constantly attuned to the
physical body, a focus generally absent from literary criticism and
philosophy or study of leading historical personages, with the
exception of patches within phenomenological philosophy and
feminism. The book delves into how the authors treated here deal
with the flesh through their autobiographical writing and in what
way they embody the essential relationship between flesh, spirit
and word. It analyses some seminal texts such as Ecce Homo, The
Story of My Experiments with Truth, Waiting for a Visa, I Know Why
the Caged Bird Sings, A Moveable Feast, Night, Baluta, My Story,
Sun and Steel, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, MAUS and Persepolis.
Lucid, bold and authoritative, this book will be of great interest
to scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, gender
studies, political philosophy, media and popular culture, social
exclusion, and race and discrimination studies.
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