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The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma, Testimony, Theory

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Memoirs in which trauma takes a major-or the major-role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"-texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing trauma and the self-and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from the formal constraints of autobiography when the re ...more
Paperback , 176 pages
Published January 4th 2001 by Cornell University Press (first published January 2001)
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