Life Writing, Representation and Identity

This book focuses on varied forms of self-referential storytelling or life writing and its emergence as a democratic and inclusive genre, both globally and in India, and its intersections with history, fiction, memory, truth and identity.

Autorentext

Mukul Chaturvedi is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi, India.

Inhalt

Part I - Introduction Part II - Auto/biographical Fiction and History 1. Writing Lives, Re-membering History in Easterine Kire's Mari 2. In Other Words: Collaboration and it's (Dis)Contents in Elena Poniatowska's Here's to You, Jesusa 3. Re-imagining Courtesan as Virangana in Kenize Mourad's In the City of Gold and Silver 4. Beyond Fact and Fiction: Towards a multifaceted Tibetan Life Writing Part III - Narrating Literary Selves/ Fictional Lives 5. Joginder Paul: The Inextricable Collaboration of Life and Writing 6. "Did This Really Happen?": Amit Chaudhuri's Acknowledgement of the Autobiographical 7. Life Writing and the Poetics of Temporal Experience in Woolf and Sartre Part IV - Fragmented Lives /Contingent Selves 8. Renegotiating Narrative Coherence: Edouard Louis Autobiographical Novel History of Violence as "Multidirectional Testimony" of Sexual Trauma 9. Baroque Cross Dressers in the Orient: Severo Sarduy and Pierre Loti 10. The 'Imagined Author': Contingent Selves in an Anonymous Life Writing Subreddit Part V - Writing Individual / Plural Selves 11. My Story of Us: A Comparative Analysis of Alberto Prunetti and Fan Yusu's Working-Class Life Writing 12. Stories of Two Gandhians: Caste and Gender Intersectionality in Odia Autobiographies 13. Life Writing as Documentation of a Community: A Reading of K.A. Gunasekaran's Vadu Part VI - Memory, Exile, and Identity 14. Inhabiting In-Between Spaces: Fractured Identities and Self-representation in Najat El Hachmi's life writing 15. Death-Travelers, Buddhas, and Comics: The Graphic Memoir of an American delok 16. The Refugee Writes Back: Interrogating and Resisting the Australian border regimes in No Friend but the mountains