Life Writing, Representation and Identity: Global Perspectives

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Auto/biographical Fiction and History
	1. Writing Lives, Re-membering History in Easterine Kire’s Mari
	2. In Other Words: Collaboration and Its (Dis)Contents in Elena Poniatowska’s Here’s to You, Jesusa
	3. Re-imagining a Muslim Courtesan as a Virangana vis-à-vis Kenize Mourad’s In the City of Gold and Silver
	4. Beyond Fact and Fiction: Towards a Multifaceted Understanding of Tibetan Autobiography
PART II: Literary Selves/ Fictional Lives
	5. Joginder Paul: The Inextricable Collaboration of Life and Writing
	6. “Is it from your Life? Did this Really Happen?”: Amit Chaudhuri’s cknowledgement of the Autobiographical
	7. Fiction or Fictional Life Stories?: Reading Qurratulain Hyder’s Beyond the Stars and Other Stories against her Life Writings
PART III: Fragmented Lives /Contingent Selves
	8. Renegotiating narrative coherence: Édouard Louis’ autobiographical novel History of Violence as “multidirectional testimony” of sexual trauma
	9. Baroque Cross-Dressers in the Orient: Severo Sarduy and Pierre Loti
	10. “What is in a name?”: Honest Telling and Vulnerability in Anonymous Life Writing
PART IV: Marginalised Lives / Communitarian Sel
	11. My Story of Us: A Comparative Analysis of Alberto Prunetti and Fan Yusu’s Working-Class Life Writing
	12. Stories of Two Gandhians: Reading Caste and Gender in Odia Autobiographies
	13. Life Narratives as Documentation of the Life of a Community: A Reading of K.A. Gunasekaran’s Vadu and the Context of Dalit Life Narratives in Tamil
PART V: Self-Representation, Exile and Identity
	14. Inhabiting In-Between Spaces: Fractured identities and Selfrepresentation in Najat El Hachmi’s writings
	15. Resisting Dehumanisation of Asylum-Seekers in Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains
	16. Death-Travellers, Buddhas and Comics: The Graphic Memoir of an American Delok
Index