{"product_id":"experimental-life-writing-today-9781350529915","title":"Experimental Life Writing Today","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis comprehensive volume offers compelling critical essays surveying the myriad forms of innovation in contemporary Anglophone life writing. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eExperimental Life Writing Today\u003c\/i\u003e provides a historical and critical context for examining avant-garde tendencies in biography and autobiography and outlines the poetics of experimental life writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The volume is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to a selection of experimental genres of life writing: autofiction, biofiction, paramemoir, autotheory, graphic memoir, photo-memoir, eco-memoir and the lyric essay. Part Two includes chapters concerned with the following themes, concepts and devices set in the context of experimental life writing: illness, disability, mourning, relationality, place, catalogue, narration and fragmentation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To ensure clarity and consistency, each chapter follows the same structure: a theoretical discussion of a given notion, comprising a brief discussion of its various aspects and examples, followed by a close reading of a chosen text. Case studies are devoted to significant contemporary works by authors such as Hazel V. Carby, J. M. Coetzee, Anne Garréta, Karen Green, Vona Groarke, Han Kang, Mary Karr, Deborah Levy, Hilary Mantel, Maggie Nelson, Ruth Ozeki, Mark Tredinnick, Una, D.J. Waldie and Wim Wenders. The volume is dedicated to exploring innovative forms of, and in, contemporary Anglophone life writing, and it makes an important contribution to a rich and burgeoning field of interdisciplinary practice and research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanessa Guignery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions in Life Narrative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350529915","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45011346620553,"sku":"9781350529915","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_25201163-29cc-45e9-9eca-c5aa5e2fc0c7.jpg?v=1764744184","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/experimental-life-writing-today-9781350529915","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}