| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : between text and author -- Fiction and memory in misery memoirs -- Gender hoaxing : Rahila Khan, Anthony Godby Johnson and J.T. LeRoy -- Indigenous envy : Wanda Koolmatrie and Nasdijj -- 'Falsifying downward' : Margaret B. Jones and James Frey -- self-advertising hoaxes : Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë -- False and embellished Holocaust testimony. |
| Summary |
This title considers a wide range of 20th and 21st century literary works that feature literary deceptions and false memories and in which the relationship between text and author is not what it seems. By exploring a variety of examples of false or embellished memoirs, purportedly autobiographical novels that are in fact thoroughly fictional, as well as bogus authorial personae, it discusses whether it is possible to judge veracity by means of textual clues alone. It also argues that literary deceptions and false memoirs have particular cultural value and significance. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
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Literary forgeries and mystifications. |
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Autobiography.
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Autobiography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
False memoirs and literary hoaxes in the contemporary era |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Vice, Sue, 1961- Textual deceptions 9780748675555 (DLC) 2014501220 (OCoLC)883701528 |
| ISBN |
9780748675562 (electronic book) |
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0748675566 (electronic book) |
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9780748675555 |
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0748675558 |
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