Missing Persons

The Impossibility of Auto/Biography
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-09975-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual.

Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and auto/biographies of twentieth-century men, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions - indeed the `missing persons - of auto/biography. Mary Evans' book will provide invaluable reading for students of womens studies, sociology and cultural studies courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The possibilities of auto/biography 2 Lies, all lies: auto/biography as fiction 3 Imperatives of deference 4 Boys’ tales 5 Looking for daddy 6 The imagined self: the impossibility of auto/biography

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Evans is Professor of Women’s Studies and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury.