The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony

Author(s)

• Gilmore, Leigh

Bibliographic Information

The limits of autobiography : trauma and testimony

Leigh Gilmore

Cornell University Press, 2001

Note

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

Contents of Works

• 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

• NCID: BA53187435
• ISBN:
  • 0801437997
• LCCN: 00010238
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ithaca
• Pages/Volumes: x, 163 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS366.A88
  • DC21 : 818/.50809492
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Autobiography
  • LCSH : English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Written on the body
  • LCSH : Autobiographical fiction -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina
  • LCSH : Gilmore, Mikal. Shot in the heart
  • LCSH : First-person narrative
  • LCSH : Self in literature