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The Oxford History of Life-Writing - Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945-2020 (Hardcover)
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The Oxford History of Life-Writing - Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945-2020 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of Life-Writing
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With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity
and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an
unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic
developments, from the publishing boom in memoir writing to the
rise of the internet, transformed the possibilities for
self-expression. By the end of the timespan covered in this book
life-writing was no longer something done mainly by important
individuals who wrote their autobiography, or by sensitive souls
who kept a diary. It became a truly ubiquitous phenomenon, part and
parcel of the everyday formation of selfhood. Considering a diverse
range of texts from across the English-speaking world, this volume
places life-writing in relation to wider debates about the
sociology and philosophy of modern identity, and the changing
marketplace of publishing and bookselling. Yet in doing so it seeks
above all to credit the extraordinary literary inventiveness which
the pursuit of self-knowledge inspired in this period. Major
subjects addressed include: the aftermath of World War II,
including responses to the Holocaust; the impact of psychoanalysis
on biography; autofiction, autrebiography, and changing ideas about
authentic self-knowledge; coming out memoirs and the transformation
of sexual identity; feminist exemplary writing and lyric poetry;
multilingualism and intercultural life-writing; the memoir boom and
the decline of intimacy; testimony narrative and memory culture;
posthumanism in theory and practice; literary biography as an
alternative to literary theory; literary celebrity and its
consequences for literature; social media and digital life-writing.
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