Missing Persons: The Impossibility of Auto/Biography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415099752)

Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual. Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and auto/biographies of twentieth-century men, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions - indeed the missing persons - of auto/biography. Mary Evans' book will provide invaluable reading for students of womens studies, sociology and cultural studies courses.

Author: Mary Evans
ISBN-10: 0415099757
ISBN-13: 9780415099752
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/10/1998
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.36w x 0.78d