Altered egos : authority in American autobiography /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Couser, G. Thomas.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 285 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	OUP E-Books.
Subject:	Autobiography. Authority in literature. American prose literature -- History and criticism. American prose literature. Authority in literature. Autobiography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11161455

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ISBN:	142940101X 9781429401012 0195345231 9780195345230 9780195058338 019505833X 1280523905 9781280523908 9786610523900 6610523908 019505833X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book is concerned with the "authority" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society.
Other form:	Print version: Couser, G. Thomas. Altered egos. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989

Table of Contents:

Prologue: the case of the counterfeit autobiography
Introduction: authority, autobiography, America
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: self-constitutional conventions
Prose and cons: the autobiographies of P.T. Barnum
False "I's": Mark Twain's pseudonymous autobiography
(En)slave(d) narrative: early Afro-American autobiography
Mary Boykin Chesnut: succession, confederacy, reconstruction
Black Elk Speaks with forked tongue
Biculturalism in contemporary autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston.

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