Description: The first critical study of innovation in contemporary life writing offering a combination of contextual overview and analytical case-study.
Brief description: Vanessa Guignery is Professor of Contemporary English Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the author of seven academic books, including Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer's Archives (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-editor of over 20 monographs and special issues of academic journals.
Review Quotes: "This is an essential text for anyone interested in experimental forms of life writing, and indeed anyone interested in life writing in its various genres, subgenres, topics and approaches. Thanks to its vast range of case studies, it is also a key text for anyone interested in contemporary writing." --Lucia Boldrini, Emerita of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK