This work demonstrates a multifaceted approach to autobiographical writing by those the dominant deem other than themselves. Focusing on four major texts of multiculturalism, the author examines how they each represent the self as unique, as collectively othered, and as inclusively human, and how these opposing aspects of selfhood interact. Rusk also analyzes the strategies that the writers speak about to their multiple, divided audiences. For these authors, articulating a life experience and a selfhood more complex than society admits, is an act of repudiation and transgression that bursts...
This work demonstrates a multifaceted approach to autobiographical writing by those the dominant deem other than themselves. Focusing on four major te...
Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively other, and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact.
Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively o...
