The Limits of Autobiography – Trauma and Testimony Gilmore Hardback

The Limits of AutobiographyTrauma and Testimony\nAuthor(s): Leigh Gilmore\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501770760, 978-1501770760\nSynopsis\nIn The Limits of Autobiography, Leigh Gilmore analyzes texts that depict trauma by combining elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory in ways that challenge the constraints of autobiography. Astute and compelling readings of works by Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dorothy Allison, Mikal Gilmore, Jamaica Kincaid, and Jeanette Winterson explore how each poses the questions \""How have I lived?\"" and \""How will I live?\"" in relation to the social and psychic forms within which trauma emerges. \n\n First published in 2001, this new edition of one of the foundational texts in trauma studies includes a new preface by the author that assesses the gravitational pull between life writing and trauma in the twenty-first century, a tension th.