The ethics of life writing

Abstract

Introduction: Mapping the Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John EakinPart I. Telling the Truth in Autobiography, Biography, and History1. Arguing with Life Stories: The Case of Rigoberta Menchu by Paul Lauritzen2. Misremembering Ted Hughes by Diane MiddlebrookPart II. Life Writing as Moral Inquiry3. Life Writing as Narrative of the Good: Father and Son and the Ethics of Authenticity by David Parker4. Judging and Not Judging Parents by John D. BarbourPart III. Representing Others: Trust and Betrayal5. Friendship, Fiction, and Memoir: Trust and Betrayal in Writing from One's Own Life by Claudia Mills6. Decent and Indecent: Writing My Father's Life by Richard Freadman7. The Ethics of Betrayal: Diary of a Memoirist by Nancy K. MillerPart IV. Acts of Resistance: Telling Counterstories8. Mapping Lives: Truth, Life Writing, and DNA by Alice Wexler9. Moral Non-fiction: Life Writing and Children's Disability by Arthur W. Frank10. When Life Writing Becomes Death Writing: Disability and the Ethics of Parental Euthanography by G. Thomas Couser11. Tales of Consent and Descent: Life Writing as a Fight against an Imposed Self-Image by Marianne GullestadAfterword by Craig HowesContributors Index

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