Theories of Autobiography, Neither Literary Nor Historical
Abstract
According to author Gabriele Schabachers, autobiographies reveal the standard referential categories of "fact" and "fiction" to be lacking, and in need of revision. The autobiographical genre is distinguished by being "doubly relevant" for both literary and historical studies. Next to theoretical considerations of the autobiography and its function in the literary system, Schabachers applies genre-specific topics of truth, authorship, self, and unity to Roland Barthes' "anti-autobiography." She demonstrates how the theoretical question of fact vs. fiction is, in fact, a give-and-take relationship inherent in every autobiographical work.
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