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The story of "me" : contemporary American autofiction /

"The Story of "Me" shows that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Worthington, Marjorie (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Series:	Frontiers of narrative.
Subjects:	Autobiographical fiction > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Autobiography in literature. Self in literature. Postmodernism (Literature) > United States. American fiction. Autobiographical fiction. Postmodernism (Literature) United States. 1900-2099 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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