Shared selves : Latinx memoir and ethical alternatives to humanism / Suzanne Bost.

Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how...

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Main Author: Bost, Suzanne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
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