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Exploring the connections between autobiography and postmodernism,
this book addresses self-representation in a variety of literatures
- Native American, British, Chicana, immigrant, and lesbian, among
others - in genres as diverse as poetry, naming, confession,
photography, and the manifesto. The essays examine how different
writers respond to the culturally specific pressures of genre, how
these constraints are negotiated, and what self-representation
reveals about the politics of identity. In contrast to those
critics of postmodernism who fear the dissolution of the active
subject, the contributors here demonstrate that autobiography gives
postmodernism a discourse through which to theorise human agency.
The autobiographical subject that emerges is not the decentered
human agent of so many versions of postmodernism, but the producer
of texts that call attention to the contradictions in dominant
modes of self-representation, and demonstrate the possibilities of
writing from other locations.
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