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Author:

Gilmore, Leigh, 1959-

Title:

The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony / Leigh Gilmore.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

x, 163 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Winterson, Jeanette,--1959---Written on the body.
Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.
Allison, Dorothy.--Bastard out of Carolina.
Gilmore, Mikal.--Shot in the heart.
American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Autobiography
English prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction--History and criticism.
First-person narrative.
Self in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-156) and index.

Contents:

Represent yourself -- Bastard testimony : illegitimacy and incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- There will always be a father : transference and the auto/biographical demand in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the heart -- There will always be a mother : Jamaica Kincaid's serial autobiography -- Without names : an anatomy of absence in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the body.

ISBN:

9780801486746 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0801486742 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780801437991 (acid-free paper)
0801437997 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44593973

LCCN:

00010238

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)