The Routledge Auto Biography Studies Reader

By Nancy K. Miller and Leigh Gilmore

The Routledge AutoBiography Studies Reader collects together key theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing.

Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three sections--Foundations, Transformations, and Futures--each with its own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections, including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity; reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma; agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives; subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and, ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history, among others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138904783
• ISBN13: 9781138904781
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.5"