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          In this book, noted life-writing scholar Paul John Eakin explores the intimate, dynamic connection between our selves and our stories..

          Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative

          February 7, 2010
          I wanted to like this more than I did.

          I thought it might help me write the introduction to a set of autobiographical essays that will soon, knock on wood, be published.

          Autobiography lends itself easily to the ideology of egalitarian individualism.

        1. Autobiography lends itself easily to the ideology of egalitarian individualism.
        2. How our lives become stories: making selves ; Topics: Autobiography, Self-perception, Identity (Psychology) ; Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell.
        3. In this book, noted life-writing scholar Paul John Eakin explores the intimate, dynamic connection between our selves and our stories.
        4. Eakin, Paul John.
        5. In this intriguing book, Paul John Eakin problematizes the notion of autobiography as "the story of the self" and argues that in the act of narration one is.



          6. It is, on the one hand, an easy read -- a short book with clean clear sentences. And Eakin is an authority on the topic, having devoted his career to all things autobiography.

          And while I learned a few things -- e.g.

          that we "write" autobiography as a continuous everyday experience, we write autobiography to write our future selves, to bury an archival bone that we anticipate digging up in the future, that autobiography must be based in the body -- I was put off by the maleness, the whiteness, and the eurocentricism of the language, form, and analysis.



          While there are bows to how his analysis might not carry past first world culture, the bows were meant to bracket this issue. Fair enough, we cannot write about everything and I am