
The Limits of Autobiography
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Leigh Gilmore is the author of several books, including The #MeToo Effect, Tainted Witness, and (with Elizabeth Marshall) Witnessing Girlhood. Her public feminist scholarship appears in The Conversation, Public Books, and WBUR's Cognoscenti.
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Introduction: The Limits of Autobiography
1. Represent Yourself
2. Bastard Testimony: Illegitimacy and Incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina
3. There Will Always Be a Father: Transference and the Auto/biographical Demand in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart
4. There Will Always Be a Mother: Jamaica Kincaid's Serial Autobiography
5. Without Names: An Anatomy of Absence in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body
Conclusion: The Knowing Subject and an Alternative Jurisprudence of Trauma
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