
Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine's Confessions, Rousseau's book of the same title, and Salvador Dal?'s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all...

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.