The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945-2020 Patrick Hayes

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945-2020 – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198737339,0198737335

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198737335
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198737339
• Author: Patrick Hayes

With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic developments, from the publishing boom in memoir writing to the rise of the internet, transformed the possibilities for self-expression. By the end of the timespan covered in this book life-writing was no longer something done mainly by important individuals who wrote their autobiography, or by sensitive souls who kept a diary. It became a truly ubiquitous phenomenon, part and parcel of the everyday formation of selfhood.

Table contents:

1. Aftermath: Confronting the Inhuman
2. Biographies of the Unconscious
3. Self-Knowledge as a Question
4. Coming Out
5. Feminism’s Lyric Subjects
6. Autoethnography
7. Intimate Memoirs
8. Memory Culture
9. Posthuman Monsters
10. Literary Biography and Theory
11. Celebrity and its Literary Consequences
12. Prospect: Human 2.0?

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