The Routledge Auto Biography Studies Reader (Routledge Literature Readers)

The Routledge AutoBiography Studies Reader collects together key theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing. Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three sections-Foundations, Transformations, and Futures-each with its own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections, including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity; reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma; agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives; subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and, ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history, among others.

• | Author: Ricia Anne Chansky, Emily Hipchen
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 09, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 374 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138904783
• | ISBN-13: 9781138904781