Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-156) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. The possibilities of auto/biography -- 2. Lies, all lies : auto/biography as fiction -- 3. Imperatives of deference -- 4. Boys' tales -- 5. Looking for daddy -- 6. The imagined self : the impossibility of auto/biography.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual." "Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and auto/biographies of twentieth-century men, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions - indeed the 'missing persons' - of auto/biography. It will provide invaluable reading for students of women's studies, sociology and cultural studies courses."--Jacket.
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Title
Missing persons.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Composition & Creative Writing.