Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
About the Book Series
The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series publishes outstanding new work from preeminent scholars and emerging voices in autobiography, biography, life writing, life narrative, and identity studies. This series is an interdisciplinary project that maintains interest in all forms of auto/biographical narrative analysis related to understanding varied constructions of the self. While centered in literary studies and the larger field of the humanities, books in this series engage with scholars and theories from such disciplines as anthropology, biology, linguistics, pedagogy, psychology, and sociology, among others. The emphasis on exploring the innovative authors, genres, and methodologies of auto/biographical narratives appeals to scholars, students, and practitioners alike. Emerging from Routledge’s longstanding commitment to auto/biography studies, this series makes a substantial contribution to the burgeoning global study of lives and life stories.
Towards a Theory of Life-Writing: Genre Blending
1st Edition
By Marija Krsteva
May 27, 2024
Towards a Theory of Life-Writing: Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing a theory to explain and illustrate the main regulations governing such genre play. It centers on fact and fiction duality in the formation of auto/biofictional genres. This book ...
Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging
1st Edition
By Nicole Stamant
January 29, 2024
Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans’ experiences in their autobiographies. Exploring writers from James McBride and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip to Barack Obama, Toi ...
Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Horvat, Orly Lael Netzer, Sarah McRae, Julie Rak
September 25, 2023
Recently, "trans" has taken on a number of important theoretical and critical meanings inside and outside the academy. As a prefix, "trans" can attach itself to other words to express or describe movement and change, as it does in the terms "transnational" or "transmedia." Trans is also an ...
Speculative Biography: Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations
1st Edition
Edited
By Donna Lee Brien, Kiera Lindsey
May 31, 2023
While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This edited collection brings together a group of international biographers to discuss how, and why, each uses speculation in their work; whether this is to conceptualise a project in its ...
Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives: The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama
1st Edition
By Monica Latham
January 09, 2023
This book explores Virginia Woolf’s afterlives in contemporary biographical novels and drama. It offers an extensive analysis of a wide array of literary productions in which Virginia Woolf appears as a fictional character or a dramatis persona. It examines how Woolf’s physical and psychological ...
The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures
1st Edition
By G. Thomas Couser
December 19, 2022
Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability often seek to depathologize the ...
Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator
1st Edition
By Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
June 13, 2022
Overwriting the Dictator is literary study of life writing and dictatorship in Americas. Its focus is women who have attempted to rewrite, or overwrite, discourses of womanhood and nationalism in the dictatorships of their nations of origin. The project covers five 20th century autocratic ...
The Birth and Death of the Author: A Multi-Authored History of Authorship in Print
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew J. Power
April 29, 2022
The Birth and Death of the Author is a work about the changing nature of authorship as a concept. In eight specialist interventions by a diverse group of the finest international scholars it tells a history of print authorship in a set of author case studies from the fifteenth to the twenty-first ...
Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography
1st Edition
By Paul Eakin
April 29, 2022
Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing. The first section, "Narrative," argues that narrative is not only a literary ...
A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography: Between Dissociation and Belonging
1st Edition
By Ariel M. Sheetrit
September 30, 2021
This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. These literary works articulate the life story of each author in ways that undermine the ...
Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women: Translingual Selves
1st Edition
By Natalie Edwards
June 30, 2021
This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into ...
Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Douglas, Ashley Barnwell
June 30, 2021
This collection of short essays provides a rigorous, rich, collaborative space in which scholars and practitioners debate the value of different methodological approaches to the study of life narratives and explore a diverse range of interdisciplinary methods. Auto/biography studies has been one of...