New Essays on Life Writing and the Body.
In light of materialist revisions of the Cartesian dual self and the increased recognition of memoir and autobiography as a crucial cultural index, the physical body has emerged in the last twenty-five years as an increasingly inescapable object of inquiry, speculation, and theory that intersects al...
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I; VALUES MADE FLESH; CONTROL, CREATIVITY AND THE BODY IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S "A SKETCH OF THE PAST"; GERTRUDE STEIN'S "EMOTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY"; PART II; THEY WEREN'T WHAT THEY ATE; THE FIT AND ATHLETIC BODY IN NEW WOMEN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; DRESSING THE PART; PART III; INTIMACY, ERASURE AND THE OTHER; THE EMBODIMENT OF MEMORY; IMAGES OF THE FAMILY BODY IN THE ADOPTEE SEARCH NARRATIVE; PART IV; REFIGURING THE MASCULINE BODY IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF DISABLED AMERICAN MEN.
- THE BROKEN MIRROR OF IDENTITY IN LUCY GREALY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACEMEMOIR AND (LACK OF) MEMORY; SIDE BY SIDE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.
