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Memoirs in which trauma take a major - or the major - role challenge the limits of autobiography. The author presents a series of "limit-cases"--Texts that combine various elements including autobiography and fiction, and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from formal constraints.

First-person narrative. --- Winterson, Jeanette, --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Allison, Dorothy. --- Gilmore, Mikal. --- #KVHA:Autobiografie --- 82-94 --- #KVHA:Letterkunde --- 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- American prose literature --- Autobiographical fiction --- Autobiography. --- English prose literature --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Autobiography --- First-person narrative --- Self in literature --- History and criticism --- Allison, Dorothy, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- First person narrative. --- American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- English prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Autobiographical fiction - History and criticism --- Winterson, Jeanette, - 1959- - Written on the body --- Kincaid, Jamaica - Criticism and interpretation --- Allison, Dorothy, - 1949- - Bastard out of Carolina --- Gilmore, Mikal. - Shot in the heart --- Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Winterson, Jeanette (1959-....) --- Autobiographie --- Roman autobiographique --- Critique et interprétation --- Histoire et critique