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dc.contributor.authorWittman, Emily O.
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-05T10:33:24Z
dc.date.available2021-11-05T10:33:24Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51362
dc.description.abstractIn The New Midlife Self-Writing, Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, Sarah Manguso, and Maggie Nelson, carefully situating these vital midlife works within the history of self-writing. She argues that they renew and redirect the autobiographical trajectories characteristic of earlier self-writing by switching their orientation to face the future and by celebrating midlife as growing season, a time of Bildung. In each chapter, writer-by-writer, she demonstrates how the midlife self-writers in question trace confident and future-oriented paths through the past, rejecting triumphalism and complicating both identity and individualism, just as they refine and redefine genres. Exploring these midlife self-writers as chroniclers of Generation X’s midlife in particular, Wittman coins the term "digital absence" to map their unique relationship to new forms of knowledge and knowledge gathering in an Information Age that they are both of and set apart from. She theorizes that their works share a "pedagogical style," a style characterized by clarity, exposition, and classical rhetoric, and a concern with the classroom, offering a warrant for reading them in pedagogical terms in concert with traditional scholarly approaches. Furthermore, Wittman presents readers with an overview of future midlife self-writing as well as self-writing overall, concluding that we might be looking at the scholarship of the future.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterary Criticism, Biography, Autobiography, Life Writingen_US
dc.titleChapter 1 Rachel Cusken_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Expansiveen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003180050-2en_US
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oapen.relation.isbn9781032017884en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032017891en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages10en_US
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