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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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.