A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution
in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with
autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented
amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us
that we live in an age of memoir, life histories are commanding
attention in many academic and professional disciplines, including
anthropology, history, journalism, medicine, and psychology, as
well as literary studies.
Our lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical
issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely
unexamined. How can life writing do good, and how can it cause
harm? The eleven essays in The Ethics of Life Writing explore such
questions. They focus chiefly on autobiography and biography, but
their findings apply to all "life writing" the entire class of
literature in which people tell life stories. Their forms include
case studies, diaries, ethnographies, interviews, and profiles. The
essays are enhanced by an introduction that provides an overview of
the volume, including a section on life writing vis-a-vis privacy
and the law, and an afterword that looks at the essays in relation
to one another."
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