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My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography) (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) - Softcover

Book 21 of 60: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography

Hazlett, John Downton

 
9780299157845: My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography) (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299157849 ISBN 13: 9780299157845
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998

Synopsis

This study of autobiographers from the 1960s demonstrates how they often claimed to speak on behalf of all members of their generation. It argues that the autobiographies are instead constructed with specific agendas in an effort to define the generation's and the writers' own identities.

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About the Author

John Downton Hazlett is associate professor of English at the University of New Orleans.  He taught as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and was visiting professor at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.  He has published essays on American literature and autobiography, book reviews, theater reviews, and articles on American film.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0299157849
ISBN 13 
9780299157845
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
280