Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The limits of autobiography
  • Represent yourself
  • Bastard testimony : illegitimacy and incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina
  • There will always be a father : transference and the auto/biographical demand in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the heart
  • There will always be a mother : Jamaica Kincaid's serial autobiography
  • Without names : an anatomy of absence in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the body
  • Conclusion: The knowing subject and an alternative jurisprudence of trauma.