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This work is concerned with the 'authority' of autobiography. Couser considers recent critiques of the notion of autobiography as issuing from, determined by, referring to a pre-existing self. He examines the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, and Mark Twain and appraises the authority of autobiography in the rather different circumstances of the minority writer: in slave narratives, the Civil War diaries of Mary Chesnut, and contemporary works by Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston. The work treats autobiographical writing as a struggle for literary control over the life of the author, against the constraints of genre, language, and society.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Altered Egos
• Subtitle: Authority in American Autobiography
• Author: G.Thomas Couser
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780195058338
• ISBN: 019505833X
• ID: 04512627
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 665 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 158 × 24 mm

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