Experiments in Life Writing Intersections of Auto Biography and Fiction 1st Edition by Lucia Boldrini, Julia Novak 1136283253 9781136283253

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ISBN 10:  1136283253 

ISBN 13: 9781136283253

Author: Lucia Boldrini, Julia Novak 

In this volume, Boldrini examines “heterobiography”—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely employed to reflect critically on the historical and philosophical understanding of the human; on individual identity; and on the power relationships that define the subject. In such texts, the grammatical first person becomes the site of an encounter, a stage where the relationships between historical, fictional and authorial subjectivities are played out and explored in the ‘double I’ of author and narrating historical character, of fictional narrator and historical person. Boldrini considers the ethical implications of assuming another’s first-person voice, and the fraught issue of authorial responsibility. Constructions of the body are examined in relation to the material evidence of the subject’s existence. Texts studied include Malouf’s An Imaginary Life, Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang, Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Adair’s The Death of the Author, Banti’s Artemisia, Vázquez Montalbán’s Autobiografía del general Franco. Also discussed, among others: Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, Tabucchi’s The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa, Giménez-Bartlett’s Una habitación ajena (A Room of Someone Else’s).

Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction 1st table of contents: 

1 Heterobiography and the Utopia of Man
Between two Worlds
Layers
The Trick of It
I Once Made it Happen
Digging
Fable
Utopia
2 Heterobiography, Violence, and the Law
A Brilliant Act of Imposture
A Law of Narrative
A Precious Foreign Object
A World Where we Would be Left Alone
Stolen from my Very Throat
There’s a Word
Puppet on a String
Nothing Human
3 The Madness of the Documentary and the Aesthetics of the Body
Caught in Myths
Not a Story About Me
The Authorship of Emotion
A Poem Somebody Could Hide in
You’re not Him!
Kid Photographer
The Inventory of Mortality
Tricks
An Ethics of Seeing
Ecce Homo
Continuum
Aesthesis
Fingers Touch
Strange Bodies
Grotesque Bodies
The Flayed Body
4 The Author? In Theory, Dead: Heterobiography and Responsibility
Who is Speaking
The Place of Writing
Shifter
Vicious Spiral
Word Process
Pacts
The Man in the Macintosh
Skeletons in the Keyboard
Smoking Gun
De Man in the Apple Macintosh
To Lie in
Aporia
The Dead (De) Man in the Game of Writing
Mischievous
Loaded Pistols
Rip
5 The Polluted Swamp: Heterobiography, Dialogue, and History
Terrible Woman
Nothing to Fall Back on
Rubble and Rainbow
Pacts
In Secret Expiation
Our Mouths
A Room Not of One’s Own
Lives of the Obscure
Our Autobiography
Noise
Caligula’s Accomplices
Conclusions

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