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The editors of this special issue honored me greatly by citing early work of mine in their call for papers: “The Embodied Self,” my introduction to a 1991 special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies on “Illness, Disability, and Life writing”; and “The Shape of Death in American Autobiography,” whi...

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In:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/erea,
Main Author: COUSER, Thomas
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: E-rea 2017
Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:The editors of this special issue honored me greatly by citing early work of mine in their call for papers: “The Embodied Self,” my introduction to a 1991 special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies on “Illness, Disability, and Life writing”; and “The Shape of Death in American Autobiography,” which appeared in the Hudson Review in 1978. Their doing so has prompted me to reflect on my long-term interest in the complex relations between life writing and death.When I published the Hudson Revi...