部編名Postwar to contemporary, 1945-2020
一般注記With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic developments, from the publishing boom in memoir writing to the rise of the internet, transformed the possibilities for self-expression. By the end of the timespan covered in this book life-writing was no longer something done mainly by important individuals who wrote their autobiography, or by sensitive souls who kept a diary. It became a truly ubiquitous phenomenon, part and parcel of the everyday formation of selfhood. The Oxford History of Life-Writing Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary explores the emergence of modern identity as a distinctive but ambivalent cultural achievement, unsettlingly poised across a range of intellectual faultlines, social pressures, and moral conundrums. Considering a diverse range of texts from across the English-speaking world, this volume places life-writing in relation to wider debates about the sociology and philosophy of selfhood, and to the changing marketplace of publishing and bookselling. Yet in doing so it seeks above all to credit the extraordinary literary inventiveness which the pursuit of self-knowledge inspired in this period
書誌注記Includes bibliographical references and index