| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 285 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: the case of the counterfeit autobiography -- Introduction: authority, autobiography, America -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: self-constitutional conventions -- Prose and cons: the autobiographies of P.T. Barnum -- False "I's": Mark Twain's pseudonymous autobiography -- (En)slave(d) narrative: early Afro-American autobiography -- Mary Boykin Chesnut: succession, confederacy, reconstruction -- Black Elk Speaks with forked tongue -- Biculturalism in contemporary autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston. |
| Summary |
This book is concerned with the "authority" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Autobiography.
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Authority in literature.
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American prose literature -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American prose literature. (OCoLC)fst00807422
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Authority in literature. (OCoLC)fst00821686
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Autobiography. (OCoLC)fst00822597
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Letterkunde.
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Amerikaans.
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Autobiografieën.
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Gezag.
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| Indexed Term |
Autobiographical prose in English American writers - Critical studies |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Couser, G. Thomas. Altered egos. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 (DLC) 88038246 |
| ISBN |
142940101X (electronic bk.) |
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9781429401012 (electronic bk.) |
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