Histories of the Elusive Self
by
Marjorie Dryburgh, Sarah Dauncey
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.