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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. 

27 Series Titles


Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies

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...

The Autobiography Effect Writing the Self in Post-Structuralist Theory

The Autobiography Effect: Writing the Self in Post-Structuralist Theory

1st Edition

By Dennis Schep
June 30, 2021

Since the advent of post-structuralism, various authors have problematized the modern conception of autobiography by questioning the status of authorship and interrogating the relation between language and reality. Yet even after making autobiography into a theoretical problem, many of these ...

Inscribed Identities Life Writing as Self-Realization

Inscribed Identities: Life Writing as Self-Realization

1st Edition

Edited By Joan Ramon Resina
September 30, 2020

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, ...

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