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Contested Selves - 9781640141056
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781640141056
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer LTD, Beth Ann Muellner, Matthias Muller, Erika Quinn, Kristin Eichhorn, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich, Laura Deiulio, Kathryn Sederberg, Julie Shoults
- Topic
- Literature
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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In recent decades, life writing has exploded in popularity: memoirs that focus on traumatic experiences now constitute the largest growth sector in book publishing worldwide. But life writing is not only highly marketable; it also does important emotional, cultural, and political work. It is more available to amateurs and those without the cultural capital or the self-confidence to embrace more traditional literary forms, and thus gives voice to marginalized populations. Contested Selves investigates various forms of German-language life writing, including memoirs, interviews, letters, diaries, and graphic novels, shedding light on its democratic potential, on its ability to personalize history and historicize the personal. The contributors ask how the various authors construct and negotiate notions of the self relative to sociopolitical contexts, cultural traditions, genre expectations, and narrative norms. They also investigate the nexus of writing, memory, and experience, including the genre's truth claims vis-a-vis the pliability and unreliability of human memories. Finally, they explore ethical questions that arise from intimate life writing and from the representation of vulnerable subjects as well as from the interrelation of material body, embodied self, and narrative. All forms of life writing discussed in this volume are invested in a process of making meaning and in an exchange of experience that allows us to relate our lives to the lives of others.
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Publisher
Boydell & Brewer LTD, Beth Ann Muellner, Matthias Muller, Erika Quinn, Kristin Eichhorn, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich, Laura Deiulio, Kathryn Sederberg, Julie Shoults
ISBN-13
9781640141056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4049033255
Product Key Features
Book Title
Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2021
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Elisabeth Krimmer, Katja Herges
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