Inscribed Identities: Life Writing as Self-Realization

By: Murray Pittock

Book Overview

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure; awareness of language's performativity permits us to read life-writing texts not as a record but as the space where the self is realized, or in some instances de-realized.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367077086
• ISBN13: 9780367077082
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"