Shared Selves by Suzanne Bost PAPERBACK 9780252084621

Shared Selves\nby Suzanne Bost\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Suzanne Bost\nTitle: Shared Selves\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Feminism and feminist theory\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9780252084621\nISBN-10: 0252084624\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nMemoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldua work in places where personal history intertwines with com.