Autobiography Multiple-component retail product
Edited by Trev Lynn Broughton
Part of the Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies series
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The analysis of life-writing as a distinct and specialized project emerged only in the second half of the twentieth century.
That it has achieved both academic respectability and critical cachet over the last twenty-five years is the result of a number of trends.
Politically 'progressive' tendencies, from the civil rights, workers' educational and second-wave women's movements, to the establishment of sociology, social history and interdisciplinary women's and 'race' studies, have appealed to 'experience', via the production and dissemination of personal testimony, life-narratives, autobiographical manifestos, as the basis for consciousness-raising and as a challenge to dominant accounts of the social world.
At the same time, paradoxically, neo-conservative celebrations of individual choice, personal entitlement, consumer power, have reinstated the 'unique' self and its representation at the heart of many late-capitalist cultures.
This collection covers all of these schools of thought and brings together both 'mainstream' and 'dissident' theorists, authors and texts.
With a new introduction by the editor, an index and a chronological table of contents, this collection will be a unique and unrivalled research resource for both student and scholar.
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- Format:Multiple-component retail product
- Pages:1600 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:14/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780415348713
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Multiple-component retail product
- Pages:1600 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:14/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780415348713