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Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf,Baldwin,Kingston and Winterson  
Author: Lauren Rusk
ISBN: 0815336551
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf,Baldwin,Kingston and Winterson

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book demonstrates a multifaceted approach to autobiographical writing by those the dominant deem "other" than themselves. Focusing on four major texts of multiculturalism, the author examines how they each represent the self as unique, as collectively "othered," and as inclusively human, and how these opposing aspects of selfhood interact. Rusk also analyzes the strategies that the writers speak to their multiple, divided audiences. For these authors, articulating a life experience and a selfhood more complex than society admits is an act of repudiation and transgression that bursts the confines of genre. Rusk therefore considers as well the ways each hybrid work draws meaning from its diverse generic roots.

     



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