American autobiography after 9/11 /

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In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They cope with financial crises, encounter difference, or confront norms of identity. Megan Brown contends that such best sellers as Cheryl Strayed's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Megan (Professor of English) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
Colección:Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Temas:
2000-2099
Autobiography.
American prose literature > History and criticism > 21st century.
Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
Autobiographie.
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique > 21e siècle.
Écrivains américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Biographies.
autobiography (genre)
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American prose literature
Authors, American > Biography
Autobiography
Biography as a literary form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Keeping it real: "fraud" memoirs and representations of ethnic authenticity
  • Learning to live again: contemporary U.S. memoir as biopolitical self-care guide
  • Memoirs of empire: encountering difference in the global marketplace
  • Babies, blow jobs, and bombs: the bromoir and/as anxiety
  • Selling subjectivity: business memoirs as biopolitical management
  • The memoir as provocation: a case for "Me Studies" in undergraduate classes
  • Afterword.

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