{"product_id":"the-limits-of-autobiography-trauma-and-testimony-9781501770777","title":"The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Leigh Gilmore analyzes texts that depict trauma by combining elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory in ways that challenge the constraints of autobiography.\u003c\/b\u003e Astute and compelling readings of works by Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dorothy Allison, Mikal Gilmore, Jamaica Kincaid, and Jeanette Winterson explore how each poses the questions \"How have I lived?\" and \"How will I live?\" in relation to the social and psychic forms within which trauma emerges. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2001, this new edition of one of the foundational texts in trauma studies includes a new preface by the author that assesses the gravitational pull between life writing and trauma in the twenty-first century, a tension that continues to produce innovative and artful means of confronting kinship, violence, and self-representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeigh Gilmore is the author of several books, including\u003ci\u003e The #MeToo Effect\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Tainted Witness\u003c\/i\u003e, and (with Elizabeth Marshall) \u003ci\u003eWitnessing Girlhood\u003c\/i\u003e. Her public feminist scholarship appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Public Book\u003c\/i\u003es, and WBUR's \u003ci\u003eCognoscenti\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50392485298450,"sku":"9781501770777","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_815cf2c2-8b8f-4596-a8cc-187bbbfc56aa.jpg?v=1728975242","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-limits-of-autobiography-trauma-and-testimony-9781501770777","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}