TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sabine Coelsch-Foisner
AU  - Wolfgang Görtschacher
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Fiction and Autobiography
T2  - Modes and Models of Interaction
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100948
N2  - Both the postmodern debate about the «death of the author» and cultural debates about constructing identities (national, socio-political, cultural, ethnic, sexual, etc.) have led to multiple attempts at redefining autobiography, traditionally predicated on concepts of identity and truth. By bringing together twenty-seven case studies of autobiographical texts from over four centuries and from a variety of cultural (mainly Anglophone) backgrounds, this book demonstrates how fruitful a critical focus on the interaction between autobiography and fiction proves for understanding the complex strategies by which subject positions are established and communicated. The texts examined include: De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes, Anaïs Nin’s diaries, General Sherman’s Memoirs, Abdelkébir Khatibi’s L’Amour bilingue, Nirad Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Helene Deutsch’s Confrontations with Myself, Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe, Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Graham Swift’s The Light of Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, A.S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale, Richard Wright’s Black Boy, and Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road.
KW  - Kongress, Autobiographische Literatur, Fiktion, Wahrheit, Theory of Autobiography, Anglophone Letter, Construction of Identity, Concept, Salzburg (2004)
LA  - English
ER  -