Textual deceptions : false memoirs and literary hoaxes in the contemporary era /

Textual Deceptions considers a wide range of twentieth- and twenty-first century literary works in which the relationship between text and author is not what it seems. By exploring a variety of examples of false or embellished memoirs, purportedly autobiographical novels that are in fact thoroughly...

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Main Author: Vice, Sue, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
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505 0 |a Introduction : between text and author -- Fiction and memory in misery memoirs -- Gender hoaxing : Rahila Khan, Anthony Godby Johnson and J.T. LeRoy -- Indigenous envy : Wanda Koolmatrie and Nasdijj -- 'Falsifying downward' : Margaret B. Jones and James Frey -- Self-advertising hoaxes : Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë -- False and embellished Holocaust testimony. 
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