Missing Persons: The Impossibility of Auto/Biography

ISBN-13: 9780415099769 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 172 str.

Mary Evans

Opis

Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her circumstances. This text, however, suggests that auto/biography is based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual.

Spis treści

1 The possibilities of auto/biography 2 Lies, all lies: auto/biography as fiction 3 Imperatives of deference 4 Boys’ tales 5 Looking for daddy 6 The imagined self: the impossibility of auto/biography

O autorze

Mary Evans is Professor of Women’s Studies and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury.