Vulnerable Subjects - Ethics and Life Writing (Hardcover)

Vulnerable Subjects explores a range of life-writing scenarios - from the celebrity to the ethnographic - and a number of life-writing genres from parental memoir to literary case studies by Oliver Sacks. G. Thomas Couser addresses complex contemporary issues; he investigates the role of disability in narratives of euthanasia and explores the implications of the Human Genome Project for life-writing practices in an age when many regard DNA as a code that scripts lives and shapes identity. Throughout, his book is concerned with the ethical implications of the political and economic, as well as the mimetic, aspects of life writing.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2004
Authors:	G. Thomas Couser
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-4185-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
LSN:	0-8014-4185-4
Barcode:	9780801441851

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