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AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Fact and Fiction

Edited By :- Rosy Singh

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Type: English

Pages: viii+244

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-366-5

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 15cm x 22cm

Product Year: 2009

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Autobiography: Fact and Fiction is a collection of essays on the nature of autobiographical discourse, its multiple semiotic structures and the complexities and the contradictions inherent in it. The book has deliberations on the classical autobiographical narrative and also new trends and practices emerging in this genre in the contemporary world ? in the East and the West, in the oral and written traditions as well as verbal and visual arts.

Preface 1. Introduction Rosy Singh 2. Autobiography, Plural Authorship and the Death of the Author Alessandro Portelli 3. Autobiographies of Dalit Authors and the Question of Dasha and Disha Abhai Maurya 4. De-scribing the Indian Woman: New Autobiographical Ventures by Indian Women Writers in English Suchitra Mathur 5. Family Lexicon of Natalia Ginzburg: Re-living Life in Words Sharmishta Lahiri 6. Autobiographies of Contemporary Intellectuals: What to Make of Them Remo Cesarani 7. The ?Stasi? as Eckermann: Reflections on Christa Wolf?s Post-Wall Autobiography What?s Left Manfred Stassen 8. ?As if I were in a Novel ...?: Peter Esterhazy?s Corrected Version Margit K?ves 9. Mended Holes of Memory: The Meaning of Pictures in Elias Canetti?s Autobiography ? The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear, The Play of the Eyes Carmen Ulrich 10. At the Border of Autobiographical Writing: Peter Handke?s Report of a Consciousness Dorethea Jecht 11. ?It Ain?t Me, Babe?: Bob Dylan?s Chronicles between Concealment and Disclosure Dirk Wiemann 12. Theory as Autobiography: Music and Childhood Reminiscences as Autobiographical Elements in the Works of Theodor W. Adorno Romit Roy 13. Kafka?s Letters to Felice Bauer: A Lover?s Discourse Rosy Singh 14. The Text as a Renewed Self-Portrait: Giorgio De Chirico?s Memories of My Life, Hebdomeros, Mr. Dudron Patrizia Raveggi 15. Autobiographical Paradox of Alberto Savinio Sanja Roi?c 16. Lyrical Autobiography: Life, Death and Self in Lyrical Poetry of Heiner M?ller and Thomas Kling Swantje Lichtenstein 17. Autobiography as Critique: De Man and the Realists Kathleen Kerr-Koch 18. The ?I?, ?Tibuta? and the ?Black Witch? in Maryse Cond??s Postcolonial-Feminist-Fictional-Auto/Biographical Song Amy Wai-Sum Lee Contributors

Rosy Singh teaches German at the Department of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of Delhi. She is the author of Rilke, Kafka, Manto: The Semiotics of Love, Life and Death (Harman, 2001) and Tagore, Rilke, Gibran: A Comparative Study (IIAS, 2002).

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