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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 414 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Holder of the World.(Brief Article)
Author: Uma Parameswaran
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v68Issue: n3Page: p636(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 1394 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Leave It to Me. (book reviews)
Author: Ellen G. Friedman
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v17Issue: n3Page: p232(2)

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Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crises and cannot even assume authoritative, first-person narration. Susanna Egan finds such autobiographies dialogic in form, involving the reader in generic experimentation in their pursuit of shifting, uncertain meanings. After tracing the literary experimentation of contemporary genres to the inventiveness of modernism, she explores the generic contributions of drama, film, quilting, comics, and blended literary forms to changing genres of autobiography. Egan identifies lived crises—such as diaspora, genocide, and terminal illness—as the forces behind generic experimentation, suggesting dynamic intersections between trauma and cultural expression.

Mirror Talk examines work by a wide range of autobiographers, including Primo Levi, Maxine Hong Kingston, Audre Lorde, Michael Ondaatje, Tom Joslin, Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee, Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum, Breyten Breytenbach, Linda Griffiths and Maria Campbell, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mary Meigs, Dennis Potter, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. ... Read more

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This work analyzes the fiction of four contemporary multicultural writers who render a floating world in which cultures converge or collide in unexpected, exciting, and dangerous ways. ... Read more

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I could write this better
Burtonanalyzes the writings of four different authors, which makes for a very boring read, especially when he uses other author's quotes and ideas to analyze other authors' work... if that makes sense.(His book sure doesn't!)He poses thesis' only to avoid proving them, or even sometimes discrediting them.This book is a waste of paper and a waste of time.I don't know about you, but I can certainly find better things to do with $24. ... Read more