![]() ![]() In exploring different literary forms and orientations of the autobiographies, the work remains constantly attuned to the physical body, a focus generally absent from literary criticism and philosophy or study of leading historical personages, with the exception of patches within phenomenological philosophy and feminism. dhi, Mishima, Warhol), literary autobiography (Hemingway, Das) as well as other genres of autobiography, including the graphic novel (Spiegelman, Satrapi), as also documentations of tragedy and injustice and subsequent spiritual overcoming (Ambedkar, Pawar, Angelou, Wiesel). The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gan. This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. ![]() A Philosophy of Autobiography: Body & Text ![]()
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