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My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) - Softcover

Buch 21 von 60: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography

Hazlett, John Downton

 
9780299157845: My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299157849 ISBN 13: 9780299157845
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

John Hazlett’s engaging and insightful study of writers from the 1960s demonstrates for the first time the ways in which the idea of the generation has affected autobiographical writing in this century. Exchanging “I” for “we,” autobiographers from the sixties claim to speak on behalf of all members of their generation. However, the extent to which each perspective accurately represents that generation’s beliefs, values, and goals will continually be contested by competing texts and narratives.
    Writers whose work is addressed in My Generation include Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Michael Rossman, Dotson Rader, Raymond Mungo, Jane Alpert, John Bunzel, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, Joyce Maynard, David Harris, and Todd Gitlin.
    As Hazlett discovered, the stories these writers present are not simply straightforward accounts; instead, each is constructed with a specific political and personal agenda in an effort to define the generation’s identity and the writer’s own.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Downton Hazlett is associate professor of English at the University of New Orleans.  He taught as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and was visiting professor at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.  He has published essays on American literature and autobiography, book reviews, theater reviews, and articles on American film.

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299157849
ISBN 13 
9780299157845
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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