XL edizioni
The Language of Autobiography
a cura di Eleonora Chiavetta
€ 15,00  pp. 192
(gender studies)  978-88-6083-008-1
novità: maggio 2007
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IL LIBRO:
Autobiographical writing is a long-established genre, conventionally started by Saint Augustine’s Confessions, and developed through the centuries in various historical and cultural contexts. Involving fundamental issues such as selfhood, representation, authorship and the division between truth and invention, autobiographies may assume different forms – from diaries and memoirs, to narratives – and may express descriptive, narrative and argumentative modes. The essays of The Language of Autobiography focus on twentieth-century women’s autobiographical texts, belonging to various social and geographical backgrounds and expressing a wide variety of both communicative objectives and discursive practices. The aim of the essays is to analyse the generic, linguistic, stylistic changes of autobiography as well as the ideological assumptions about the value it has in modern society as a means to represent culturally displaced and powerless people that through autobiographical narratives thus affirm themselves and the culture they represent.
                                                                                                                                                                              
L’AUTORE:
Eleonora Chiavetta is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Palermo. Her research focuses on specialized discourse, genre analysis and women’s studies. Among her latest publications the editing of Thieves of Languages /Ladre di linguaggi. Il mito nell’immaginario femminile, 2003 and the monograph, Generi testuali e discorso specialistico. Writing for the Community of Gardeners, 2004.
Marina Cacioppo teaches American Literature and Culture at the University of Palermo. She works on ethnic identity in American culture, focusing especially on immigrant writings.
Dilek Direnc is an Associate Professor at Ege University (Turkey), Department of English Language and Literature. Her research focuses on texts by authors from the American South.
Silvana Sciarrino is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Palermo. Her main fields of research are translation studies, specialized discourse and modernist fiction.
Sebnem Toplu is an Associate Professor at Ege University (Turkey), Department of English Language and Literature. She mainly works on cultural materialism and postcolonial texts.