Reading autobiography : a guide for interpreting life narratives /
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson offer a concise yet far-reaching overview of key terms, issues, histories, and texts in life narrative studies. Reading Autobiography is a step-by-step introduction to the differences of self-narrative from fiction and biography; the components of autobiographical acts...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Life narrative: definitions and distinctions
- Autobiographical subjects
- Autobiographical acts
- Life narrative in historical perspective
- History of autobiography criticism, part 1: defining the genre
- History of autobiography criticism, part 2: contemporary theorizing
- Tool kit: twenty strategies for reading life narratives.
