Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Autobiography and the Cultural Moment: A Thematic, Historical, and Bibliographical Introduction 1
5. Conditions and Limits of Autobiography 28
6. Full of Life Now 49
7. The Style of Autobiography 73
8. Some Principles of Autobiography 84
9. Confessions and Autobiography 115
10. Recovering Literature's Lost Ground Through Autobiography 123
11. Autobiography and the Making of America 146
12. Black Autobiography: Life as the Death Weapon 169
13. Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography 181
14. Michel Leiris: Mazemaker 194
15. The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers 207
16. Some Versions of Memory/Some Versions of Bios: The Ontology of Autobiography 236
17. The Veto of the Imagination: A Theory of Autobiography 268
18. Eye for I: Making and Unmaking Autobiography in Film 296
19. Fictions of the Self: The End of Autobiography 321
20. Bibliography 343
21. Index 353