02748nam 2200637Ia 450 991045134480332120200520144314.01-280-52390-50-19-534523-11-4294-0101-X(CKB)1000000000407088(EBL)270949(OCoLC)191924216(SSID)ssj0000101553(PQKBManifestationID)11109141(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101553(PQKBWorkID)10043924(PQKB)11764733(MiAaPQ)EBC270949(Au-PeEL)EBL270949(CaPaEBR)ebr10142043(CaONFJC)MIL52390(OCoLC)936848791(EXLCZ)99100000000040708819881201d1989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAltered egos[electronic resource] authority in American autobiography /G. Thomas CouserNew York Oxford University Press19891 online resource (298 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-505833-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index.Contents; 1 Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography; 2 Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions; 4 Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P. T. Barnum; 5 False ""I's"": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography; 6 (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Autobiography; 7 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction; 8 Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue; 9 Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston; 10 Conclusion; NotesSelected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YThis book is concerned with the ""authority"" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society.AutobiographyAuthority in literatureAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Autobiography.Authority in literature.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.810/.9/4928109492Couser G. Thomas701065MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451344803321Altered egos2234800UNINA