Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral
testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience
through memory and re-evaluation, but also art. Any communication
has to use shared conventions not only of language itself, but also
the more complex expectations of "genre", of the forms expected
within a given context and type of communication. This collection
of essays by international academics draws on a wide range of
disciplines in the social sciences and humanities to examine how
far the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of
autobiography and influence what messages they can convey. After
investigating the problem of genre definition and tracing the
evolution of genre as a concept, contributors explore such
questions as: how far can we argue that what one includes in an
autobiography is contingent upon the variety of genres available;
to what extent is oral autobiography shaped by its social and
cultural context; and what is the relationship between
autobiographical sources and the ethnographer?
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