Life writing is the most flexible and open term available for
autobiographical fragments and other kinds of
autobiographical-seeming texts. It includes the conventional genres
of autobiography, journals, memoirs, letters, testimonies, and
metafiction, and in earlier definitions it included biography. It
is a way of seeing literary and other texts that neither
objectifies nor subjectifies the nature of a particular cultural
truth.
Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and
comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by
diverse Canadian scholars, most of whom are women engaged in larger
projects in life writing or in archival research. In the more
practical pieces the author has discerned a pattern in
autobiographical text, or subtext, that has come to revolutionize
the life, the critic's approach, or the discipline itself. In the
theoretical pieces, authors make cogent proposals to view a body of
literature in a new way, often in order to incorporate feminist
visions or humanistic interpretations.
The contributors represent a broad range of scholars from
disciplines within the humanities and beyond. Collectively they
provide an impressive overview of a growing field of
scholarship.
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