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This book is concerned with the ""authority"" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society.

Authority in literature --- Autobiografie --- Autobiographie --- Autobiography --- Autorité dans la littérature --- Gezag in de literatuur --- Non-fiction --- American literature --- 82-94 --- 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- American prose literature --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor --- Criticism and interpretation --- Twain, Mark --- Chesnut, Mary Boykin --- Neihardt, John Gneisenau --- Rodriguez, Richard --- Kingston, Maxine Hong --- African American authors --- Black Elk --- Slave narratives --- United States --- Autobiography. --- Authority in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?.

People with disabilities --- People with disabilities, Writings of, American. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Autobiography. --- American people with disabilities, Writings of --- Physically handicapped, Writings of the, American --- American literature --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- People with disabilities in literature --- People with disabilities, Writings of, American --- Biography&delete& --- Biography

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Each year brings a glut of new memoirs, ranging from works by former teachers and celebrity has-beens to disillusioned soldiers and bestselling novelists. In addition to becoming bestsellers in their own right, memoirs have become a popular object of inquiry in the academy and a mainstay in most MFA workshops. Courses in what is now called ""life writing"" study memoir alongside personal essays, diaries, and autobiographies. Memoir: An Introduction proffers a succinct and comprehensive survey of the genre (and its many subgenres) while taking readers through the various techniques, themes, and

Autobiography --- Biography as a literary form. --- Authorship.

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Autobiography in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Autobiography in literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- 82.015.9 --- 82-94 --- 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Literary movements --- History and criticism