The Limits of Autobiography
Trauma and Testimony
Published on 15. July 2023
186 pages
978-1-5017-7078-4 (ISBN)
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with a new preface
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
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Reflowable
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978-1-5017-7078-4 (9781501770784)
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Person
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.
Content
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
