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Offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation. The stories considered in this book range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They describe a human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, authenticity, memory, and more.

Impersonation in literature. --- Self in literature.

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Disguise in literature --- Impersonation in literature --- Eichendorff, Joseph, - Freiherr von, - 1788-1857

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Comparative literature --- Impersonation in literature. --- Littérature comparée - Thèmes, motifs. --- Littérature comparée --- Personnification dans la littérature. --- Seduction in literature. --- Séduction dans la littérature. --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs.

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In the 1920's, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990's, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted

American prose literature --- Autobiography. --- Literary forgeries and mystifications --- Impostors and imposture in literature. --- Difference (Psychology) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Impersonation in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Difference (Psychology) in literature --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Group identity in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Impersonation in literature --- Impostors and imposture in literature --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Self in literature --- History --- Santiago, Danny