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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Brown, Megan (Professor of English) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Biography as a literary form.
Autobiography.
Authors, American > Biography.
American prose literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
biographies (literary works)
autobiography (genre)
Biographie (Genre litteraire)
Écrivains americains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Prose americaine > Histoire et critique > 21e siecle.
Autobiographie.
Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
American prose literature > History and criticism > 21st century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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