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In:Translation of Autobiography: Narrating self, translating the other
Susan XU Yun
[Benjamins Translation Library 136] 2017
► pp. 19–39

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Chapter 1
Distinctiveness of autobiography

Binary oppositions and theoretical dimensions

Published online: 13 November 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.136.c1
Article outline
  • 1.1Introduction
  • 1.2Distinctive features of autobiography
    • 1.2.1Autobiography and memoirs: Self or others
    • 1.2.2Autobiography and biography: Subjectivity or objectivity
    • 1.2.3Autobiography and fictive autobiography: Truth or myth
    • 1.2.4Autobiography and canonical literature: Comprehensibility or exceptionality
    • 1.2.5Autobiography and historiography: Private or public
  • 1.3Review of studies on autobiography
    • 1.3.1Shifts of critical focus
    • 1.3.2Self-making and world-making functions
    • 1.3.3Enactment and didactic role
    • 1.3.4Referential and rhetorical value of language and style
    • 1.3.5Competing voices and identity crisis in translation
  • 1.4Conclusion
  • Notes
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