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Modern Irish Autobiography Provides The First Comprehensive Critical Analysis Of The Irish Autobiographical Tradition From The Early Nineteenth Century To The Present Day. This Pioneering Collection Offers Readers A Stimulating And Provocative Introduction To The Principal Themes, Modes And Narrative Strategies Of Irish Autobiographers. Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes On Contributors; Introduction: Autobiography And The Irish Cultural Moment; 1 'with A Heroic Life And A Governing Mind': Nineteenth-century Irish Nationalist Autobiography; 2 Creating The Self, Recreating The Nation: The Politics Of Irish Literary Autobiography From Moore To Behan; 3 'life Purified And Reprojected': Autobiography And The Modern Irish Novel; 4 Pilgrimage To The Self: Autobiographies Of Twentieth-century Irish Women; 5 'loss, Return, And Restitution': Autobiography And Irish Diasporic Subjectivity 6 Breaking The Silence: Emigration, Gender And The Making Of Irish Cultural Memory7 Twentieth-century Gaelic Autobiography: From Lieux De Mémoire To Narratives Of Self-invention; 8 'drawing The Line And Making The Tot': Aspects Of Irish Protestant Life Writing; 9 Fighting Without Guns?: Political Autobiography In Contemporary Northern Ireland; 10 'voice Itself': The Loss And Recovery Of Boyhood In Irish Memoir; 11 Memoirs Of An Autobiographer; Bibliography; Index Edited By L. Harte. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English