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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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.