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A Philosophy of Autobiography - Body & Text (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,868
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A Philosophy of Autobiography - Body & Text (Hardcover): Aakash Singh Rathore

A Philosophy of Autobiography - Body & Text (Hardcover)

Aakash Singh Rathore

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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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Imprint: Routledge India
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2018
First published: 2019
Authors: Aakash Singh Rathore
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-49659-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
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LSN: 1-138-49659-6
Barcode: 9781138496590

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