This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only s

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timoth

In this ambitious work, Susan Clair Imbarrato examines the changes in the American autobiographical voice as it speaks through the transition from a colonial so

In the post-9/11 era, a flood of memoirs has wrestled with anxieties both personal and national.

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