The Limits of Autobiography: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti

by Leigh Gilmore

Book Overview

Memoirs in which trauma takes a major--or the major--role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"--texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing trauma and the self--and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from the formal constraints of autobiography when the representation of trauma coincides with self-representation. Gilmore maintains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486742
• ISBN13: 9780801486746
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"