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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
G Thomas Couser |
| ISBN: | 019505833X 9780195058338 |
| OCLC Number: | 18907364 |
| Description: | ix, 285 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: the case of the counterfeit autobiography -- Introduction: authority, autobiography, America -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: self-constitutional conventions -- Prose and cons: the autobiographies of P. T. Barnum -- False "I's": Mark Twain's pseudonymous autobiography -- (En)slave(d) narrative: early Afro-American autobiography -- Mary Boykin Chesnut: succession, confederacy, reconstruction -- Black Elk Speaks with forked tongue -- Biculturalism in contemporary autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston. |
| Responsibility: | G. Thomas Couser. |
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