What Makes Autobiography Interrogative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3805809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna Perreault (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 130-142 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0682 |
| OpenAlex | W2093061912 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The language of questions used so often in autobiographical narratives and theory may reflect the interrogative nature of autobiography. Engendering, directing, and sustaining the narrative inquiry, an autobiographer's questions are at the heart of his enterprise. While they begin by impelling his narrative, they frequently end by characterizing it: its brand of truth, its inconclusiveness, its self-referentiality, its expression of the speaker's will to know. Richard Wright's Black Boy exemplifies how autobiography can thus be seen as a narrative correlative to the interrogative
Art · Art history · Biography · Correlative · Interrogative · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Wright · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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