Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing

by Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir

Borderlines. Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Writing locates and investigates the borderlines between autobiography and fiction in various kinds of life-writing dating from the last thirty years. This volume offers a valuable comparative approach to texts by French, English, American, and German authors to illustrate the different forms of experimentation with the borders between genres and literary modes. Gudmundsdottir tackles important contemporary concerns such as autobiography's relationship to postmodernism by investigating themes such as memory and crossing cultural divides, the use of photographs in autobiography and the role of narrative in life-writing. This work is of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, postmodernism and contemporary life-writing.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003