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Inscribed Identities - Life Writing as Self-Realization (Paperback)
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Inscribed Identities - Life Writing as Self-Realization (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
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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 Dali'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 Kate 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.
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