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The Limits of Life Writing (Hardcover)
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The Limits of Life Writing (Hardcover)
Series: Life Writing
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In the age of social media, life writing is ubiquitous. But if life
writing is now almost universal-engaged with on our phones;
reported in our news; the generator of capital, no less-then what
are the limits of life writing? Where does it begin and end? Do we
live in a culture of life writing that has no limits? Life
writing-as both a practice and a scholarly discipline-is itself
markedly concerned with limits: the limits of literature, of
genres, of history, of social protocols, of personal experience and
forms of identity, and of memory. By attending to limits, border
cases, hybridity, generic complexities, formal ambiguities, and
extra-literary expressions of life writing, The Limits of Life
Writing offers new insights into the nature of auto/biographical
writing in contemporary culture. The contributions to this book
deal with subjects and forms of life writing that test the limits
of identity and the tradition of life writing. The liminal case
studies explored include magical-realist fiction, graphic memoir,
confessional poetry, and personal blogs. They also explore the
ethical limits of representation found in Holocaust life writing,
the importance of ficto-critical memoir as a form of resistance for
trans writers, and the use of 'postmemoir' to navigate the traumas
of diasporic experience. In addition, The Limits of Life Writing
goes beyond the conventional limits of life writing scholarship to
consider how writers themselves experience limits in the creation
of life writing, offering a work of life writing that is itself
concerned with charting the limits of auto/biographical expression.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Life
Writing.
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