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Book SynopsisDiverse tendencies in critical and cultural theory have combined to give autobiography a new importance. The essays in this collection address from different vantage points the larger problems posed by the form and the question of its institutional and cultural marginality.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: the institution of autobiography Robert Folkenflik; 2. Theory versus autobiography John Sturrock; 3. The autobiographical process Jerome Bruner; 4. Toward an anti-metaphysics of autobiography Julia Watson; 5. Institutionalizing women's autobiography: nineteenth-century editors and the shaping of an autobiographical tradition Linda H. Peterson; 6. Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography Lindon Barrett; 7. The Mexican immigrant as *: the (de) formation of Mexican immigrant life story Genaro M. Padilla; 8. What happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik Barbara D. Metcalf; 9. 'In me the solitary sublimity': posturing and the collapse of romantic will in Bejamin Robert Haydon Roger J. Porter; 10. Hogarth's self-representations Ronald Paulson; 11. The self as other Robert Folkenflik; Notes; Index.
