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Shared selves : Latinx memoir and ethical alternatives to humanism / Suzanne Bost.

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"Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Bost, Suzanne (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
Subjects:
Hispanic American authors > Biography > History and criticism.
Hispanic Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Hispanic Americans > Biography.
Humanism in literature.
Womanism in literature.
Women's studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : beyond the self
  • Writing Latinx memoir : fragmented lives, precarious boundaries
  • Community : John Rechy, depersonalization, and queer selves
  • Webs : Aurora Levins Morales's animal, vegetable, and digital ecologies
  • Life : the Gloria E. Anzaldúa papers and other-than-humanist ontologies
  • Conclusion: Selflessness?

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