Autobiography & Postmodernism

Authors

Gerald Peters PhD, University of Southern Maine
Kathleen Ashley
Leigh Gilmore

Files

Document Type

Book

Description

Edited by Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, Gerald Peters.

These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity,

Contributors are Betty Bergland, Andrei Codrescu, Michael M. J. Fischer, Leigh Gilmore, David P. Haney, Paul Jay, Shirley Neuman, Christopher Ortiz, Sidonie Smith, Kirsten Wasson, and Hertha D. Wong.

ISBN

0870239007

Publication Date

1994

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

City

Amherst, MA

Keywords

English Prose Literature, American Prose Literature, History and Criticism, Autobiography

Disciplines

American Literature | English Language and Literature | Modern Literature | Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures

Recommended Citation

Ashley, Kathleen M., et al. Autobiography & Postmodernism. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.