7 research outputs found
Writing the Othered Self: Autoethnography and the Problem of Objectification in Writing About Illness and Disability
No full textTruth Troubles
No full text“truth” is an issue of public discussion, research, and everyday performance. Processes of navigating truth, however, are obscure and often unknown. In this project, the authors highlight truth(s) of written life texts. They conceive of truth as a rather than the “rhetorical device” to use for evaluating personal research and believe that demanding factual, historical truth-of-life research is faulty and problematic. By illustrating how genre, trust, memory, and confession influence truth telling, the authors hope to question and enhance truth-related conversations
‘A literary phenomenon of the non-literate’: classed cultural value, agency and techniques of self-representation in the ghostwritten reality TV star memoir
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