Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Benjamin M. O. Odhoji Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 252 ISBN: 9783844382129
Описание
Why do recent African American and black South African autobiographers experiment with radical subversive narrative modes? While respecting autobiography as a generic form, they often challenge certain Euro-western notions of self and self-representation. This book compares and contrasts forms of self-definition and patterns of self-representation in selected autobiographies published in the 1980s and 1990s. The book argues that recent autobiographies emerge as literary recreations of stifling historical experiences that function as self-referential narrative processes of restorying marginal lives. Specifically, the book proposes that restorying takes the form of resisting, revising and re-writing forms and practices of deprivation and domination. Restorying also entails choosing and embracing “the margin” as a site of resistance and possibility to renew oneself. The book affords scholars and general readers glimpses into how and why contemporary autobiographers like President Obama...
