10.26.2008

Life Writing

An umbrella term, that usefully doubly eclipses 1. the muddled arguments around the fictive non-concrete, constructed, narrative "I" (self, other, subject) of/in autobiography, and 2. the notion that autobiography is non-fiction...

and, emphasizes the texts themselves which may include diary, journal, travelogue, daybook, letters, poems, essays, testimonios, confessions, etc. etc. which are ALL biography in the literal sense, a WRITING of LIFE...

...and allows focus on the writing body....

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